Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
Fyodor DostoevskyAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: russian
- Born: November 11, 1821
- Died: February 9, 1881
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
![Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted..."](/pic/232361/600x316/quotation-laurell-k-hamilton-i-wanted-to-wipe-the-grin-off-his-face-with.jpg)
We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.
Ben Okri
![Juan Ramon Jimenez quote: "Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that..."](/pic/358262/600x316/quotation-juan-ramon-jimenez-perhaps-this-momentary-life-of-ours-is-only.jpg)
![Confucius quote: "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong..."](/pic/137909/600x316/quotation-confucius-if-you-look-into-your-own-heart-and-you-find-nothing.jpg)
![Rita Mae Brown quote: "As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and..."](/pic/67958/600x316/quotation-rita-mae-brown-as-a-woman-i-find-it-very-embarrassing-to-be-in.jpg)
![LL Cool J quote: "I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what..."](/pic/12684/600x316/quotation-ll-cool-j-ive-got-to-see-my-movie-to-see-how-im-acting-see.jpg)
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.
Poppy Z. Brite