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Famous Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
“...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.”
“Love life more than the meaning of it?”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.”
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
“Man is bound to lie about himself”
“Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.”
“I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.”
“Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness”
“It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.”
“If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.”
“Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.”
“Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.”
“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”