Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1881
Nationality:
Russian |
