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
degrees lost greater
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
vipers brothers-karamazov
Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
challenges suffering
Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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.
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.
spring miracle doe
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
world
I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
fog cities what-if
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
two giving pieces
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
cooking firsts hares
To cook your hare you must first catch it.
firsts chance stranger
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
pain fear-of-death
God is the pain of the fear of death
true-friend heart compassion
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.