Lamentations 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 DostoevskyHuman laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
Fyodor DostoevskyThere are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.
Fyodor DostoevskyIf he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?
Fyodor Dostoevsky