Dostoevsky quotes

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

Dostoevsky quotes part 2

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