Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky