The soul is healed by being with children. – Dostoevsky
To love someone means to see them as God intended them. – Dostoevsky
Beauty will save the world. – Dostoevsky
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. – Dostoevsky
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. – Dostoevsky
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. – Dostoevsky
Love all God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. – Dostoevsky
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. – Dostoevsky
You can judge a society by how healthy its prisons are. – Dostoevsky
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. – Dostoevsky
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. – Dostoevsky
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. – Dostoevsky
To live without hope is to cease to live. – Dostoevsky
In the end, there is nothing more frightening than a mirror. – Dostoevsky
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness. – Dostoevsky
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. – Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children. – Dostoevsky
The secret of man’s being is not only to live, but to have something to live for. – Dostoevsky
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison. – Dostoevsky
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. – Dostoevsky
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula. – Dostoevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. – Dostoevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. – Dostoevsky
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. – Dostoevsky
It is not monsters who do the most monstrous things; it is those who suffer and who want to make others suffer. – Dostoevsky
Man is a mystery. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man. – Dostoevsky
A man in misery until his death often takes pleasure in maintaining a semblance of freedom, even though it be only in his imagination. – Dostoevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. – Dostoevsky
Man is a creature that can get used to anything. – Dostoevsky
All was darkness and uncertainty; but at least he knew one thing: he could die…God would yet grant him the time in which to act. – Dostoevsky
It is not suffering that is important, but the consciousness that one is suffering. – Dostoevsky
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. – Dostoevsky
Love all God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. – Dostoevsky
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. – Dostoevsky
The thought pierced him that in the end, what matters is not who wins but what is lost. – Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children. – Dostoevsky
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. – Dostoevsky
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. – Dostoevsky
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again. – Dostoevsky
Even the sun is not so important. The man who plays the accordion in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is more important to me. – Dostoevsky
A fool knows everything, a clever man knows everything else. – Dostoevsky
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my suffering. – Dostoevsky
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. – Dostoevsky
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others. – Dostoevsky
To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world, and one should be careful in telling what one knows. – Dostoevsky
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