Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Despair Quotes, Hopelessness Quotes

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

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--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

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One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

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I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

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

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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

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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.

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Without God all things are permitted.

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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

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Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

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