Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money is coined liberty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky