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
love men suffering
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
suffering able consciousness
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
sports suffering consciousness
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
suffering dignity worthy
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
broken suffering break
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
mistake punishment suffering
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
suffering atonement achieve
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
party judging suffering
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.
suffering may want
I want to suffer so that I may love.
children humanity suffering
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
men suffering cost
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
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?
suffering wish drink
I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
heart suffering ease
And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.