Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1821
CityMoscow, Russia
Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about
drunk truthful
I'm drunk but truthful.
feelings unhappy unhappiness
It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...
nice intelligent ideas
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.
suicide believe envy
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.
too-much consciousness sickness
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
what-matters matter trifles
Trifles, trifles are what matter!
stupid punishment asking
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
joy world mass
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
punishment murder crime
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
two four littles
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
world opinion creation
Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
gratitude praise insisting
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
faith jesus children
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
despotism ends unlimited
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.