Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Independent, Men, Choices

• For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Choices, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.117, Modern Library

• Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

• I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Evil

• One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Keys, Piano

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