Art of Wisdom
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevski
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevski
“I want peace and quiet. I'd sell the whole world for a cap for them not to bother me.”
“If you can respect someone despite a difference of opinion, you have become human.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for people of great intelligence.”
“Some people are afraid to offend because they know what it means to be offended.”
“One forgets that one loves, but never that one is not loved!”
“The hardest feeling in the world is having to be in a place where you don't feel you belong.”
“The most painful thing is the gap between what you say and what you mean.”
“That's what's terrifying for me, I understand everything.”
“I was sure of one thing. I've never hurt anyone as much as I've hurt myself.”
“If I'm always happy in life, what's left to dream about?”
“If you do right what everyone else does wrong, what everyone else does will be right and what you do will be wrong.”
“Loving and waiting are not the same thing, everyone loves but not everyone can wait.”
“Monsters go to hell; can hell bring back the evil they have done, the life they have ruined?”
“Shameful to say, but not shameful to do, here is the morality that grows from the seeds you sow.”
“With a rope you can commit suicide or set up a swing. The strings of life are in your hands.”
“I swear, it's a disease to take everything for granted.”
“The moment you expect sincerity from the wrong person, you break.”
“But falling in love isn't love. One can fall in love while hating.”
“Unless our lies are exposed, we are all honest people.”
“It's better to be unhappy and know everything than to be happy and live foolishly.”
“To love is not to look for love in someone beautiful. It is to find yourself in that person, in an unexpected moment in an unknown time.”
“Everyone I didn't answer, just to avoid breaking hearts, just to do my own thing, thought they were right.”
“The price of loving someone too much is never being able to love anyone again.”
“Now all honest people have gone mad. Only the mediocre and untalented enjoy life.”
“I trust hate more than love. Because hate can't be faked.”
“You have enemies? How nice. It means you've shown character in some things in life.”
“No one was like me and I was like no one. I was alone and they were everyone.”
“Your respect for people is infinite, but your patience is limited.”
“I am an experienced patient as much as you are an experienced doctor.”
“No one will love you for who you are; everyone will love you because they think it would suit them to love you, that is, for themselves, and that means that in doing so they will love themselves. You will have never been loved at the end of the story.”
“You can go wrong, you can know wrong, you can even think wrong, but you cannot feel wrong.”
“It is a human inability to live. Otherwise, which fish drowned itself, which sparrow jumped out of the window?”
“In fact, what hurts the most is not the disappointments, but the happiness that can be experienced but cannot be experienced.”
“Lying has so permeated people's language that there is a phrase called “to tell the truth”.”
“Take the most useless, useless man in the world and make him a toll booth clerk. He will think he is important and will immediately begin to think of you as beneath him.”
“You will never meet the right person. Either the time is wrong or the person is wrong.”
“There are two ways to be happy: Either you reduce your wants or you push your possibilities.”
“If what you postpone is your happiness, what you lose is a whole life.”
“Then I learned that it will never happen, that people don't change and no one can change them and that it's not worth the effort.”
“No matter what you do, you will die regretting it. Maybe for what you did, maybe for what you didn't do.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of your unhappiness.”
“The secret of human existence is not just to live, but to have something to live for.”
“Man attributes two meanings to life: One when he cries, the other when he laughs. And he appreciates it only once, when he loses what he has.”
“Sweet times don't fall from the sky, we create them ourselves. They are in our hearts.”
“Don't be like everyone else, stand apart, even if it means being alone.”
“Oh, my endless clumsiness. Again, I put hope in my torn pocket.”
“It was so strange I couldn't cry, but my soul was shattered.”
“There's nothing worse than living in an environment where one doesn't belong.”
“Simple mortal men like us were ultimately losers.”
“Man strives to get something. When he gets it, he throws it away. It is only when he loses it that he realizes its true value.”
“Know that a man's worth is not in his presence, but in his absence. Remember, the presence of one whose absence makes no difference is useless.”
“Sometimes there are moments when I am happy to be alone, to grieve alone without interruption, and such moments are becoming more and more frequent.”
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle, I just wish He didn't trust me so much.”
“If everything is going wrong, maybe you're going wrong.”
“Your greatest sin is that you betrayed yourself for nothing and destroyed yourself.”
“I think really great people have to suffer great pain.”
“Every person is responsible for everything to everyone.”
“People use their prejudices when they can't figure you out.”
“They cried a little at first, but they're used to it now. Vile human beings get used to everything.”
“The plague of this age that has lost its soul is not the inability to think, but the inability to feel.”
“How is it that under such a sky all sorts of sullen, capricious people can live?”
“What does my compassion matter! Isn't mercy the cross on which the one who loves people is crucified?”
“Man is a builder, he likes to open new paths; this is an indisputable fact. But why does he also love to destroy, to make everything chaotic?”
“I have seen people who, though they have never killed a human being, are more murderous than a murderer, I have seen those who kill our hope.”
“They say that not being surprised at anything is a sign of being very wise; I think it is equally and just as strongly a sign of being foolish.”
“The best time for people to get to know each other is the time closest to their separation.”
“The dog who gets beaten by everyone will bite the one who pats him on the head.”
“Good men die of loneliness. Good women die looking at the sky from the balconies of bad men.”
“Gentlemen, I swear, too much understanding is a disease, a real disease, in the fullest sense of the word. A normal person should not have too much understanding.”
“No one was like me, and I was like no one. I was alone, and they were everyone. And that thought devastated me.”
“I think that if there is no such thing as the devil, if man has invented him, he has invented him by looking at himself, by imitating himself.”
“I would like the truth to be kept above everything, above even poor egos. I would give my life for friendship to be mutual, frank and without lies.”
“Aren't people happy when they have nothing to lock their doors for?”
“Unless people are unhappy, they don't understand the unhappiness of others. The sensitivity of an unhappy person is much stronger.”
“Love yourself more than anyone else in the world, because everything in the world is based on self-interest.”
“The more I understood, the deeper I sank, the more I got stuck.”