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
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.
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.
dream reality brain
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
reality people different
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.
heaven life-is embrace
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
angel school race
Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.