Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov, 1880)

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes from the Underground, 1864)

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 Dostoyevsky (Notes from the Underground, 1864)