Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Hell Quotes, Hopelessness Quotes

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

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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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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

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Life had stepped into the place of theory.

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God is the pain of the fear of death

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

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Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

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What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

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He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

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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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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

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