Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

"There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky in Time quotes.

"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"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

"There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky in Evil quotes.

"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I utter what you would not dare think."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky