Quotes by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began again, "but I can't resist.....

It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists....

Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity....

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Then this God does exist according to you?""He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain,....

It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition.....

You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only....

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Oh, with my pathetic, earthly, Euclidean mind, I know only that there is suffering, that none are to....