I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevsky dignityworthysuffering You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children. Fyodor Dostoevsky stupidchildrendirty When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn. Fyodor Dostoevsky heartpastthinking The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence Fyodor Dostoevsky he-manpurposemen There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? Fyodor Dostoevsky forgivingearthmen I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril. Fyodor Dostoevsky parisdoctorshurt People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people. Fyodor Dostoevsky well-knownintelligentpeople Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoevsky gratitudebeing-happymen It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky second-chancemenlife There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Fyodor Dostoevsky a-loss-for-wordsdeep-thoughthealing 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. Fyodor Dostoevsky sunsetmoneyreal My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so. Fyodor Dostoevsky truth-isdonepeople Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Fyodor Dostoevsky intelligenceintelligentmen For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. Fyodor Dostoevsky ashesgrowing-updust The world will be saved by beauty. Fyodor Dostoevsky savedworld Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. Fyodor Dostoevsky naturepathanimal If God does not exist, everything is permitted. Fyodor Dostoevsky god-is-deadifs People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact. Fyodor Dostoevsky punishmentnumbersideas If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love Fyodor Dostoevsky mysterymindlove But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. Fyodor Dostoevsky back-alleysdarkadventure
