All Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes ⇑
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Change Humans
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.Short
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!God
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.Life Philosophy Wisdom Man
I love mankind... but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love a man in particular.Love Humanity
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.Honesty Reality Intelligence
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.Love Short Suffering
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.Courage Power
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. 
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. 
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. 
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. 
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. 
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. 
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. 
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 man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. 
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. 
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
I love mankind... but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love a man in particular.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.