Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Prayer Quotes

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Real Quotes , Illness Quotes

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Be Good Quotes , Let Me Quotes

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Children Quotes , Heart Quotes

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , God Knows Quotes

Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Heart Quotes , Self Quotes

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Sun Quotes , Brothers Karamazov Quotes

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Sarcasm Quotes

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Joy Quotes , World Quotes

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Fear Quotes , Deep Thought Quotes

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Heart Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Broken Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Men Quotes

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Love Quotes , Mind Quotes

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Mysterious Quotes

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Life Quotes , Stupid Quotes

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Food Quotes , Feet Quotes

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Desire Quotes , Show Me Quotes

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.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Awful Quotes