Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about devil, beauty, heart, god, man
Quotes by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski
22 quotes by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski
Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski - russian novelist
Also known as: Dostoievski.
Was born on 11 nov 1821.
Died on 09 feb 1881, at 59 years old.
Died on 09 feb 1881, at 59 years old.
Origin country: Russian Federation
Biography: He was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. A prominent figure in world literature, Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest psychologists in world...
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about existence, reason, man, work
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about happiness, lie
Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about career, genius, beginning, end, man
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about habits, nothing, man, life
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about problems, happiness, man
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about problems, man
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about unhappiness, things, world
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about man, good, good luck
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about privacy, soul, people
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about unhappiness, happiness
The soul is healed by being with children.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about children, soul, being
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about things, numbers, man, mind
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about old, olderness
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about interest, word, perfection, people
