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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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

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My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

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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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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

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At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

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In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

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Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

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I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

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