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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about life

Russian Novelist, Writer November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881

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For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation. Fyodor Dostoevsky
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment..."
God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life? Fyodor Dostoevsky
They say the sun brings life to the universe. The sun will rise and--look at it. Isn't it dead? Everything is dead. Dead men are everywhere. There are only people in the world, and all around them is silence--that's what the earth is. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes..."
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: ", twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning..."
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite..."
Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky
You know, Mitya, I shall go to a nunnery. No, really, some day I shall go to one. Alyosha said some words to me today that I shall remember all my life..." (Book VIII: Mitya. Delirium) Fyodor Dostoevsky
we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in ourselves that it's better from a book Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at..."
I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were so on principle. Some (though by no means all) turned up drunk, but they seemed to regard it as some new manifestation of grace they had discovered only the day before. They all appeared to be quite extraordinarily proud of something. On all faces was written that they had only just discovered some highly important secret. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum of three thousand roubles today, or any other money, never, never! I swear to it by all that is holy in our world." Khokhlakov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so..."
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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