“Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes · Page 2
1821 – 1881
Russian novelist, author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
55 quotesAbout Fyodor Dostoevsky on Wikipedia
“Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
“For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
“Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom.”
“The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool.”
“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.”
“There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ.”
“A great many people were put down as mad among us last year.”
“Money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.”
“A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
“Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more.”
“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing.”
“To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it.”
“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”
“One must really be a great man to be able to make a stand even against common sense.”
