Best Dostoevsky Quotes

#1. I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

Michel Houellebecq

#2. Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#3. In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#4. My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#5. Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Georg Brandes

#6. In the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#7. The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#8. Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Neel Mukherjee

#9. When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, ... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift ... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#10. 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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#11. They were like two enemies in love with one another.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#12. It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible ... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

Brian D. McLaren

#13. When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#14. I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#15. It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#17. Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#18. Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches;
look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!

John Tagliabue

#19. I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#20. Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#21. This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#22. Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#23. Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#25. I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#26. When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

Carla Bruni

#27. I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#28. Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. To cook your hare you must first catch it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#30. How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Fyodor Dostoevsky