FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY QUOTES

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

“To live without hope is to cease to live.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“Beauty will save the world.”

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

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

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”

“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.”

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”

“Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret.”

“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“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.” QUOTES TO GET YOU MOTIVATED

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

“It’s not the sensational killings that matter, but the everyday wrongdoing.”

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”

“A person’s character is determined by the manner in which he or she accepts defeat.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“The more I love humanity, the less I love man in particular.”