Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I love humanity, but to my surprise, the more I love humanity in general, the less affection I feel for individual people.

How good does happiness make to man! It seems as if one would want to give his heart, his joy. And joy is contagious!

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

It is better to be wrong following your own path than to be right following someone else's path.

In our planet, we can only love through suffering and pain. We don't know how to love in any other way, nor do we know any other kind of love.

In the world, there is nothing as difficult as frankness and nothing as easy as flattery.

Nature can be corrected, amended, for otherwise we would be buried under prejudices. Without that, there would not be a single great man.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

I like it when they make mistakes. In this lies the superiority of man over other organisms. This is how one arrives at the truth. I am a man, and I am precisely that because I make mistakes.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a great intelligence and a deep heart. Truly great people, I believe, have a great sadness on earth.

What people fear most is taking a new step, uttering a new word...

And besides, what am I going to dream of when, not in dreams, but awake, I have been so happy by your side!