Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
When we lie to ourselves, and believe our own lies, we become unable to recognize truth, either in ourselves or anyone else, and we end up losing respect for ourselves and others. When we have no respect for anyone, we can no longer love, and in order to divert ourselves, having no love in us, we yield to our impulses, indulge in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behave in the end like an animal, in satisfying our vices. And it all comes from lying—lying to ourselves and others.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky