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
heart unhappy fool
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
hero heart angel
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
mother baby heart
God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
heartbreak betrayal causes
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
heart feelings doe
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
heart understanding mind
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
heart his-love bears
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
heart knows know-how
Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
mother heart widows
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
heart mind consciousness
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness
love children heart
You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.
life heart infinite
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
heart sorrow wells
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.
heart pride sarcasm
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.