133 quotes
I most respectfully return him the ticket.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
For the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
The Idiot (1868)
Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.
The Adolescent (1875)
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
The Idiot (1868)
It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
The Idiot (1868)
The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.
Notes from Underground (1864)
A woman is always a woman even if she is a nun.
Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
... the prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
The Idiot (1868)
They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
The Idiot (1868)
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
Crime and Punishment (1866)
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.'
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
Personal correspondence (1839)
"They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."
Crime and punishment (1866)
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979)
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
The Citizen, of necessity, must speak to citizens, and therein lies its whole trouble!
The Diary of a Writer as translated by Boris Brasol (1949)