42 Most Famous Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian essayist, short story writer, novelist, philosopher, and journalist. He was born on 11th November 1821 in Moscow, Russia, and died on 9th February 1881, St. Petersburg. His full name was Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. His literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia and engage with various philosophical and religious themes.
He is known as one of the finest novelists. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
Below we have added these most famous Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes! Read them to learn more about his thoughts.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: A NOVEL IN FOUR PARTS AND AN EPILOGUE
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“Something in my soul was rising, rising, ceaselessly, painfully, and refused to be still.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE IDIOT
“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: A NOVEL IN FOUR PARTS AND AN EPILOGUE
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE ADOLESCENT(VINTAGE CLASSICS)
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“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
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“It’s life that matters, nothing but life–the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE IDIOT(WORDSWORTH CLASSICS)
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“I create entire romances in my dreams.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: WHITE NIGHTS AND OTHER STORIES
“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: DEMONS: THE POSSESSED, THE DEVILS
“Something had caught fire within me, a purpose had revealed itself.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“You don’t need free will to determine that twice two is four. that’s not what I call free will.“
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself.“
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“To think too much is a disease.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“An intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
SOURCE: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.“
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“It’s the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
SOURCE: THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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