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
daughter mother creativity
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.
crush meaningful men
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
discovery what-matters life-is
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
reality people tragedy
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.
blood soul my-soul
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
dream real men
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.
law wish care
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
world absurdity happens
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
fighting conflict feels
The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
men worry long
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
sweet love-you sorrow
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
men law coward
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
life suffering earth
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
men example different
a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.