#i might do a second one bc there were a lot of good quotes
These are various quotes taken from Russian Author Fyodor Dostoevsky and his works. Change things to your liking. Enjoy.
- “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. “
- “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.”
- “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
- “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
- “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
- “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
- “The soul is healed by being with children.”
- “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
- “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
- “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
- “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
- “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
- “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
- “Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
- “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
- “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…”
- “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.”
- “You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
- “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
- “Beauty will save the world”
- “I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
- “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.”
- “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
- “Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
- “When reason fails, the devil helps!”
- “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
