Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It is a true and terrible phrase : true, because we are all queer fellows dreaming ; and we are que...”

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”

“A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.”

“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”

“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”

“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.”

“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”

“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”

“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”