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
beast humans human-beings
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
numbers wealth can-do
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
citizens criminals prison
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
intelligent people well-known
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
hares
Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
beauty christian world
Beauty will save the world
laziness results ifs
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
sleep night men
I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...
ocean men thinking
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!
spy slavery prison
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.
mistake punishment suffering
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
falling-in-love sorry eye
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love...
suffering able consciousness
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
wall accepting consequence
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.