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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57244af | Bitter is the ascent of Golgotha... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 43511c9 | I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradiction will disappear like a pitiful mirage, a vile concoction of man's Euclidean mind, feeble and puny as an atom, and that ultimately, at the world's finale, in that moment of eternal harmony, there will occur and be revealed something so precious that it will suffice for all hearts, to allay all indignation,.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7661494 | But what made me furious was that I knew for certain that I should go, that I should make a point of going; and the more tactless, the more unseemly my going would be, the more certainly I would go. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f9d2edc | A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a word and made a mountain out of a pea--he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes fee.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 0eaced9 | Don't be too anxious on my account. I have but one wish--to be in good health; the tedium is a passing matter, and cheerfulness depends in the last resort upon myself. Human beings have an incredible amount of endurance and will to live; I should never have expected to find so much in myself; now I know it from experience. Farewell! I hope that these few lines will give you much pleasure. Greet every one you see whom I have known--forget no.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 52b3066 | I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f490f68 | You have revealed me to myself. You have seen through me and explained me to myself. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ec2e9c9 | I think everyone should love life above everything in the world." "Love life more than the meaning of it?" "Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6dd178b | The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straight forward. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 564bcc1 | I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards and the Hussars, and fine ladies; at those moments I felt a spasmodic pain in my heart and hot flushes down my spine at the thought of the wretched inadequacy of my costume and the mean vulgarity of my small figure darting about. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1f0dfd0 | Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3f3c47f | Such a stupid excuse was even more degrading! In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!" | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9429a57 | An officer put me in my place from the first moment. I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word--without a warning or explanation--moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 06cf0b9 | But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk.... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 212fa92 | I owe them nothing now, and owe no one anything for ever. They are wicked and I will be wicked. They are cruel and I will be cruel. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 8f45b5e | They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! "Love one another"__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomor.. | death-of-a-loved-one life-lessons love regret | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| df2641c | Of course, I hated my fellow clerks one and all, and I despised them all, yet at the same time I was, as it were, afraid of them. In fact, it happened at times that I thought more highly of them than of myself. It somehow happened quite suddenly that I alternated between despising them and thinking them superior to myself. A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| d07bae4 | Reason is passion's slave, is it not? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 56c9912 | He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4278046 | Kurios men pseudesthe ston eauto sas. Autos pou leei psemata ston eauto tou phtanei sto telos na men xekhorizei ten aletheia oute mesa oute guro tou. Etsi khanei ton autosebasmo tou alla kai ton sebasmo ton allon. Kai kathos den sebetai pleon kanena, stamata na agapa.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1d3eab6 | Dr. Frankl discovered that even under the most inhumane of conditions, one can live a life of purpose and meaning. But for the majority of prisoners at Auschwitz, a meaningful life did not seem possible. Immersed in a world that no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, that robbed them of their will and made them objects to be exterminated, most inmates suffered a loss of their values. If a prisoner did not struggle a.. | John Chaffee | ||
| af64589 | Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is expected to exercise an extraordinary and serious influence in the progress of society, in the end betrays such shallowness and insipidity of his fundamental idea that no one is sorry when he succeeds in writing himself out too soon. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3861898 | He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e551cb8 | Look, suppose that there was one among all those who desire nothing but material and filthy lucre, that one, at least, is like my old Inquisitor, who himself ate roots in the desert and raved, overcoming his flesh, in order to make himself free and perfect, but who still loved mankind all his life, and suddenly opened his eyes and he saw that there is no great moral blessedness in achieving perfection of the will only to become convinced, a.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3010d3d | Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented. | shoutout | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 45dd09d | Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end up by eating one another, that's what I prophesy. | pride | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 49052ae | It is a year and eight months since I last looked at these notes of mine. I do so now only because, being overwhelmed with depression, I wish to distract my mind by reading them through at random. I left them off at the point where I was just going to Homburg. My God, with what a light heart (comparatively speaking) did I write the concluding lines!--though it may be not so much with a light heart, as with a measure of self-confidence and u.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a49a96f | il m'aimait tout en me haissant ; cet amour est de tous le plus fort... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b0d93a8 | With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing. Nobody wears such a hat, it would be noticed a mile off, it would be remembered... . What matters is that people would remember it, and that would give them a clue | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| df1a0f2 | For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man. This knowledge is the crown of life for the monk and for every man. For monks are not a special sort of men, but only what all men ought to be. Only through that knowledge, our heart grows soft with infinite, univers.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a53b74e | Love God's people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse still, in covetousness, they will come from all sides and draw away your flock. Expound the Gospel to the people unceasingly... be not extortionate... . Do not love gold and silver, do not hoard them... . Have faith. Cling to the banner and raise it on high. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 93a897e | Vizh kakvo, g'l'bche, shche ti kazha otkroveno i prosto: vseki poriad'chen chovek triabva da b'de pod chekh'la na niakoia zhena. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 183af8e | Poor Sonya! What a little gold-mine they've managed to get hold of there! And profit from! Oh yes, they draw their profits from it! And they've got used to it. They wept at first, but now they are used to it. Men are scoundrels, they can get used to anything! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4457a7b | Dosta je bilo! - izusti odlucno i svecano. - Dalje od mene, utvare, izmisljene strepnje, prividenja!... Ima jos zivota! Zar nisam sad maloprije zivio? Nije mi se jos zivot ugasio s onom babuskarom! Bog da joj dusi dao lako i... i dosta je bilo, bakice, vrijeme da se smirite! Sad je zavladalo kraljevstvo razuma i svijetla i... i volje, i snage... i da vidimo sada! Da se ogledamo! - dometne pakosno, kao da se obraca nekoj mracnoj sili i izazi.. | život | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 44c7828 | why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving ... the very same ideas? And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? This coincidence always seemed strange to him. This trivial talk in a tavern had an immense influence on him in his later action; as though there had r.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ea13cc9 | Insanoglu amacina ilerlemeyi sever, fakat amacini elde etmeyi degil. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fb22a46 | it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot even move one's arms. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ad15965 | Je pense qu'on doit aimer la vie par-dessus tout. -Aimer la vie, plutot que le sens de la vie? -Certainement. L'aimer avant de raisonner, sans logique, comme tu dis; alors seulement on en comprendra le sens. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 84afc66 | Months and years!' he would exclaim. 'Why recon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b580fff | On every face was written that they had only just discovered some extremely important secret. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 15bbe66 | Yarinin hiclik olmasi tehdidiyle mutlu olamam ve olmayacagim. Derin bir hakaret bu... Bu yuzden, beni aci cekmem ve yok olmam icin, fikrimi sormadan ve kustahca var eden bu dogayi; su goturmez davaci, savci ve davali rolumle, kendimle birlikte mahkum ediyorum... Dogayi yok edemedigim icin de, sadece kendimi yok ediyorum, hicbir suclunun bulunmadigi bir tiranliga katlanmaktan bezmis olarak... | dostoyevsky | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f78791f | fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid--the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. What bank? How can I tell? I only believe that you have long life before you. I know that you take all my words now for a set speech prepared beforehand, but maybe you will remember them after. They may be of use some time. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7a4b814 | He walked, looking about him angrily and distractedly. All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he felt that there really was such a point, and that now, now, he was left facing that point--and for the first time, indeed, during the last two months. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b36b17d | Alyosha said to himself: "I can't give two roubles instead of 'all,' and only go to mass instead of 'following Him." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |