Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Quotes and wisdom from Russian writer and philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

I am a dreamer... I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

A hundred suspicions don't make it proof.

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. "

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"Finally the dull, dirty, grey autumn day peered into the room at him through the cloudy windowpanes with a grimace so sour and bad tempered that Mr Golyadkin could no longer have the slightest doubt he was not in some far distant realm but in the capital town of St Petersburg.."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

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

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

@ThePCCLondon any plans to show other Park Chan-Wook films soon ¿?¿?

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"In old days, once a year at any rate a fool would recognise that he was a fool, but nowadays not a bit of it. And they have so muddled things up that there is no telling a fool from a wise man. They have done that on purpose."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

“Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.”

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"A great many people were put down as 'mad' among us last year....but after all, these so called 'madmen' have turned out cleverer than ever. So it seems the critics can call them mad but they cannot produce anyone better!"

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"Forbidden fruit is sweetest of all"

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"I know you don't believe in it--but don't be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid--the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.”

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

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

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky @fromdostoyevsky]

"Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart.."