Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

Life [had] replaced logic.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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

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

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

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.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

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

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.