Fyodor Dostoyevsky Top 10 Quotes
10 | 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. |
9 | The soul is healed by being with children. |
8 | 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. |
7 | What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. |
6 | Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. |
5 |
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. |
4 |
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do. |
3 |
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. |
2 | It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. |
1 | It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. |