Dostoevsky’s 19 Quotes to Live By
2 min readOct 18, 2024
- Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
- Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
- Man has it all in his hands, and it slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
- The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he is in prison.
- I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
- Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.
- Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
- The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
- You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
- Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
- The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
- The soul is healed by being with children.
- If you want to overcome the world, overcome yourself.
- It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
- To go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
- Allow me to give you some advice from the heart. There is a single refuge, a single medicine: art and creative work.
- The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God.
- It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
- But how could you live and have no story to tell?
