Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes - Page 5

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them.

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power-it's because I know I live in an empty society.

perchè non c'è nessun altro dal quale andare! Bisogna pure che ogni uomo abbia qualche posto dove andare. Poichè ci sono momenti in cui assolutamente bisogna andare da qualche parte!

Sono proprio i piccoli particolari, di solito, a rovinare ogni cosa...

Man is a vile creature!

Money is the honey of humanity.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have risen to such a revelation of truth?

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Pues nada ha sido nunca para un hombre o una sociedad humana más insoportable que la libertad.

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

It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.

Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind as feel instinctively with the full force of his emotions that he could never again communicate with these people in a great gush of feeling, as he had just now, or in any way whatever.

Quanto mais gosto da humanidade em geral, menos aprecio as pessoas em particular, como indivíduos.

In most cases, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.