Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

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

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

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

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

I utter what you would not dare think. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

If there is no God, everything is permitted. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

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. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Its in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)