Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes - Page 13 | Just Great DataBase

جميع الناس يعيبون الخلاعة، ولكنهم جميعا يتعاطونها.

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

I hated my face, for example, found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it, and therefore every time I came to work I made a painful effort to carry myself as independently as possible, and to express as much nobility as possible with my face. "let it not be a beautiful face," I thought, "but, to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one." Yet I knew, with certainty and suffering, that i would never be able to express all those perfections with the face I had. The most terrible thing was that I found it positively stupid. And I would have been quite satisfied with intelligence. Let's even say I would even have agreed to a mean expression, provided only that at the same time my face be found terribly intelligent.

It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.

There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

إن الكذابين العريقين الذين ظلوا ظلوا طوال حياتهم يمثِّلون يبلغون أحياناً من عمق تقمصهم للدور الذي يمثلونه أنهم يرتعشون انفعالاَ ويبكون، رغم قدرتهم على أن يقولوا لأنفسهم في الوقت نفسه (أو بعد بضع دقائق): "أنت تكذب أيها الكاذب العريق! أنت تمثل حتى في هذه اللحظة، رغم غضبك "المقدس" ورغم هذه الدقيقة "المقدسة" من الغضب".

- What is a Socialist?- That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

Дура с сердцем и без ума такая же несчастная дура, как и дура с умом без сердца. Старая истина

Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.

أنه في المقال قسم الناس إلى نوعين : مخلوق "عادي" ومخلوق "غير عادي". وفرض على أولئك أن يعيشوا مطيعين دون أن يعطيهم الحق في تجاوز القانون و خرقه لأنهم كمان ترى مخلوقات عادية, أما الآخرون فإن لهم الحق في إرتكاب الجرائم وخرق كل قانون لمجرد كونهم مخلوقات غير عادية! أليست هذه فكرتك ؟ أم تراني مخطئاً ؟

ذكرياتها القديمة هي كل ما بقي لها الآن, أما ما تبقى فقد تبدد كالسحاب