More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
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.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
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.
