Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Famous Quotes
"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
"Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness."
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth."
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Quotations
Latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.
Seneca
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
John Atkinson
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
Sue Grafton
It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
Aesop
"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."
Ovid
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
Gail Sheehy
It's never to late to have a happy childhood.
Wayne W Dyer
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
"Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes."
Abigail Van Buren