Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
Fyodor DostoevskyIf he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?
Fyodor DostoevskyLamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
Fyodor DostoevskyMan has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky