Fyodor Dostoevsky

The deeper a person thinks, the quieter they become.

Everything is a riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense.

The more you understand this world, the more you destroy yourself. That's why fools are happy, and intelligent people live in loneliness.

Everything is a path, every action a step, every thought a direction.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

The second half of a man’s life is usually made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

For the secret of human existence lies not only in living but in knowing what to live for.

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

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

'Kane Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Be careful in casting out your devils lest you cast out the best thing that's in you.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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