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
earth rational ifs
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
sun brothers-karamazov ifs
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
dream heart desire
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
ocean echoes world
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
challenges suffering
Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
sad men seductive
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
moving-on heart past
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
heaven life-is embrace
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
discovery knowing world
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
dream reality brain
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
opposites able
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
my-friends ifs
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
wall moving heart
I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.
heaven secret atheism
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.