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  • #1
    Fyodor 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. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #2
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #5
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #7
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #8
    Fyodor 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.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #13
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

  • #16
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #17
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #19
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: love

  • #20
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

  • #22
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #23
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #24
    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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