Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky true-love love-you friendship I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. Fyodor Dostoevsky ironic selfishness tea There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things. Fyodor Dostoevsky men facts way Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. Fyodor Dostoevsky anxiety men long I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since. Fyodor Dostoevsky november lasts caring Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force. Fyodor Dostoevsky humanity spiritual order My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking? Fyodor Dostoevsky care law two Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Fyodor Dostoevsky real dream men It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky. Fyodor Dostoevsky stars sky night I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man. Fyodor Dostoevsky spiteful sick men Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone. Fyodor Dostoevsky soul might ideas If not reason, then the devil. Fyodor Dostoevsky devil ifs reason Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Fyodor Dostoevsky dream action relationship As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture. Fyodor Dostoevsky writing mean believe There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. Fyodor Dostoevsky harder easier ideas Let us be servants in order to be leaders. Fyodor Dostoevsky inspiration faith order With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrath liars lying A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. Fyodor Dostoevsky fool unhappy heart Without God all things are permitted. Fyodor Dostoevsky without-god all-things Be the sun and all will see you. Fyodor Dostoevsky sun inspirational
