Dostoyevsky Notes From Underground Quotes

#1. A song is a poem set to music.

Tom T. Hall

#2. I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. A decent, educated man cannot afford the luxury of vanity without being exceedingly exacting with himself and without occasionally despising himself to the point of hatred.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. And with love one can live even without happiness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#7. A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Thomas Couture

#9. It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Blaise Pascal

#10. The power of imagination is infinite.

John Muir

#11. I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Amy Winehouse

#12. And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.

William Faulkner

#13. I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better
cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. The abuse of power takes happiness away.

Frederick Lenz

#17. When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle dreamed about. The money to buy all the books she ever wanted from all over the world - and a place to keep them.

Liz Braswell

#18. If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. Such is Life [Executed by hanging.]

Ned Kelly

#20. The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. No prize , however great can justify an ounce of self deception or a small departure of the ugly facts. ( Notes from Underground)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#23. I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.

Fuyumi Ono

#24. The quality of players - the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers - bring an X-factor to the game. It's highly entertaining and it's something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.

Brett Finch

#25. There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

Gary Weiss