Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

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.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.