Fyodor Dostoevsky

When you think you can love someone again... but Dostoevsky once wrote: “The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.” https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075269515240157286

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. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075170437982515523

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. #dostoevsky https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075103454779896219

On our Earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075101193269911977

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity, and without a pure heart, there can be no complete and true consciousness. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075079551097393383

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, or Chekhov. Pick one. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075038492363510182

the deep satisfaction of reading dostoevsky books is still unmatched https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2075012069762482504

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074989706815639610

What's one book you'd recommend to everyone? Fiction, nonfiction, philosophy. Tell me. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074985140095189111

Dostoevsky hit me a little too hard with: ‘One never forgets the taste of certain tears.’ https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074911656165913019

define ‘Dostoevsky’ https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074906876571959715

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074897348967190890

Literature is a picture, or rather in a certain sense both a picture and a mirror. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074806505795178902

The deeper the grief, the closer is God. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074741070966014230

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074740813452423285

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.  Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074740315592827095

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. #dostoevsky https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074738555239141874

Yes, that’s right.. love should come before logic. Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074708354081993070

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074625052599886321

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. https://twitter.com/Dostoevskyquot/status/2074526666236309604