More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.
