Quotes Tagged With :dostoyevsky

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately....

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

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

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely....

It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand.

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

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

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace.....

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