Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Thoughts and images

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

A hundred suspicions don't make proof.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.