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
hell hopelessness inscriptions
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."
firsts blame oneself
One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.
nature animal golden
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
atheist world easier
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
punishment ideas numbers
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
stories existentialism minimalist
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
jesus believe perfect
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...
love-life disappear console
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
responsible ifs
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
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.
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.