Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1821
CityMoscow, Russia
friendship true-love love-you
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
stupid stupidity-and-ignorance sincere
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
healing healed back-again
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
deep-thought shelter earth
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
kindness good-life doe
How good life is when one does something good and just!
men monsters misery
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
inspirational sun
Be the sun and all will see you.
proof hundred suspicion
A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
happiness men unhappy
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
suffering wells idle
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
thieves unjust unbearable
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.
differences healthy shade
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.
ideas soul earth
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.
deep-thought chaos destruction
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.