Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease. ~ Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. ~ Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. ~ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." ~ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky "If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison." ~ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky "I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen." ~ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky