English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Jean Racine quote: "Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!"
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! Jean Racine
Robert Frank quote: "When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way..."
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. Robert Frank
Kim Clijsters quote: "When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose."
When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose. Kim Clijsters
What I mean is, what makes people unhappy is not too little choice, but too much," said Mitchell Layton. "having to decide, always to decide, torn every which way all of the time. Now in a society of pattern, a man could feel safe. Nobody would come to him all the time pestering him to do something. Nobody would have to do anything. What I mean is, of course, except working for the common good. Ayn Rand
Gilda Radner quote: "I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny..."
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. Gilda Radner
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. William Blake
I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.In the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof ?d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the... Stephen King
Allen Ginsberg quote: "what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls..."
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination Allen Ginsberg
Dick Dale quote: "I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration,..."
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. Dick Dale
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. Joaquin Phoenix
Dave Winfield quote: "I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all."
I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all. Dave Winfield
I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer! Jonathan Brandis
Why must you have this map?" she asks. "Even with a map, you will never leave this Town."She brushes away the bread crumbs that have fallen on her lap and looks toward the Pool."Do you want to leave here?" she asks again. I shake my head. Do I mean this as a "no", or is it only that I do not know?"I just want to find out about the Town," I say. "The lay of the land, the history, the people, ... I want to know who made the rules, what has sway over us. I want even to know what lies beyond."She... Haruki Murakami
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! Al Lewis
Paulo Coelho quote: "The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And..."
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us. Paulo Coelho