It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
Fyodor DostoevskySince I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
Fyodor DostoevskySorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
Fyodor DostoevskyThere is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.
Fyodor DostoevskyA special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.
Fyodor Dostoevsky