Quotes Tagged With :dostoyevsky

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these....

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and....

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully....

All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting....

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices....

Science and reason have, from the beginning of time, played a secondary and subordinate part in the life....

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all—but....

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life,....