Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky