DOSTOYEVSKY. > Quotes

“But how fine joy and happiness make a person! How the heart seethes with love… And how infectious is the joy!”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“What have you done with your years? Where have you buried your best days? Did you live or not? Look, you say to yourself, look how cold the world is becoming. More years will pass, followed by gloomy solitude, and then doddering old age will come on a walking-stick, to be followed by anguish and despondency. Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will wither, die, and scatter like yellow leaves from the trees...”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“How strange: he suddenly found it hard and painful to be loved so much. Yes, a strange and dreadful feeling! Walking over to Sonya's he'd felt that she was his one hope, his one way out; he'd expected to cast off at least some of his suffering, and now, all of a sudden, when her whole heart was turned towards him, he suddenly felt and realized that he was infinitely unhappier than before.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“All you have to do is say "percentage" and all your worries are over. Now, of course, if you used some other word - well, then perhaps it would make you feel a little uncomfortable.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY., Crime And Punishment; The Gambler; Notes From The Underground

“I don’t know how to keep quiet when my heart is speaking inside me.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“El dinero está tan por bajo de la dignidad de un caballero que casi no vale la pena pensar en él.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“…you are outgrowing your former ideals: they are being smashed to dust, to bits and pieces; and if there is no other life, then you must build it from these bits and pieces.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“The darker the night, the closer is God”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY., Crime And Punishment; The Gambler; Notes From The Underground

“But a tormented person, too, sometimes likes to toy with his despair. But thank the creator for giving you a lofty heart capable of being tormented by such a torment”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“You don’t understand; I used to think, indeed, that if women are equal to men in all respects, even in strength (as is maintained now) there ought to be equality in that, too. Of course, I reflected afterwards that such a question ought not really to arise, for there ought not to be fighting and in the future society fighting is unthinkable… and that it would be a queer thing to seek for equality in fighting. I am not so stupid… though, of course, there is fighting… there won’t be later, but at present there is… confound it.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person the way I talk with myself.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“Я хочу говорить хотя бы с одним человеком, как с самой собой.”
― DOSTOYEVSKY.

“Eituku khani torkari te ki baal khabo?! Arektu de.

Areyy torkari ki..chudey ashbey bey?!”
― DOSTOYEVSKY., Crime And Punishment; The Gambler; Notes From The Underground