Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Fyodor Dostoevsky has a lot to say. In this list we present the 13 best Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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