Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty, God, Heart

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Soul, Last, Privacy

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Work, Women, Men

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fool, Opinion, Once

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Great, Happiness, Greatest

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Good, Laugh, May

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Before, Perfect, Sometimes

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Children, Soul, Healed

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money, Real, Far

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power, Able, Themselves

If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mind, Away, Afraid

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, God, Someone

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Nothing, Fact

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness, Enough, Count

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hope, Live, Cease

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cannot, Old, Said

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Two, Five, Formula

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Possible, Eat, Sing

Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fear, Study, Results

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Count, Likes, Troubles

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love, Men, Death

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Love, Living

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Born: November 11, 1821

Died: February 9, 1881

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