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.

Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Topics: Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them, character, the...

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them, character, the...

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up....

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up....

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money...

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money...

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and...

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and...

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than...

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than...

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the...

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the...

The soul is healed by being with children.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great...

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great...

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

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

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

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

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul...

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul...

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every...

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every...

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my...

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my...

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.