Notes From The Underground Quotes

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms and bent, naughty notes - perfect for small and secret spaces.

Nicole Mones

#3. My, my." A feral grin spread across Cole's face. "Little brother must be a good kisser.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. I don't fight fair, baby. I fight to win.

Kristen Ashley

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. A budget is people telling their money where to go instead of wondering where it went. You

Dave Ramsey

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.

Frederick Lenz

#10. 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

#11. Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

Patrick J. Ryan

#12. 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

#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'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.

Bruce Willis

#15. Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

Caitlin Moran

#16. I am not as smart as you. I'm just smarter than you. Where is my Granola Bar, by the way?

Alankrita Verma

#17. 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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. 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

#20. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

Kelly Wearstler