Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“Beauty will save the world.”

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

“Love all God's creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.”

“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.”

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”

“We are all responsible to all for all.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters: to be able to dare!”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“Man only likes to count 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.”

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”