For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness Fyodor Dostoevsky inspirationgivingcharacter Man is bound to lie about himself Fyodor Dostoevsky boundsmenlying Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw. Fyodor Dostoevsky wispsdrowningmen There is no virtue if there is no immortality. Fyodor Dostoevsky immortalityvirtueifs It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. Fyodor Dostoevsky youngwonderfulnight It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? Fyodor Dostoevsky insistinggratitudepraise When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery. Fyodor Dostoevsky miserymonstersmen One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others. Fyodor Dostoevsky oneselfblamefirsts A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. Fyodor Dostoevsky beasthuman-beingshumans How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? Fyodor Dostoevsky menyearsideas But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself. Fyodor Dostoevsky playersuccessmen Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. Fyodor Dostoevsky deceiving-otherstruthlying A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth. Fyodor Dostoevsky true-friendcompassionheart My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally. Fyodor Dostoevsky my-friendsifs Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another. Fyodor Dostoevsky lazinesspeoplefirsts He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... . Fyodor Dostoevsky gestureshatredfeelings All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. Fyodor Dostoevsky angelwingspeople At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours. Fyodor Dostoevsky drawingkeyssky I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. Fyodor Dostoevsky sicknessgentlemanreal And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much! Fyodor Dostoevsky sufferingfeelingstrying
