More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
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.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
