Top 27 Quotes by 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.

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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

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.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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.