Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Religious, Nature

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Earth, Rational, Happens

• Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pride, Greatness, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.427, Bantam Classics

• If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Deep Thought, Earth, Shelter

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.692, e-artnow

• There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Forgiving, Earth

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.115, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Law, Coward

• Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Soul, Solitude

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.484, First Avenue Editions

• Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Is, Men, Earth

• For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Earth, Made

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

• Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ideas, Soul, Might

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.734, Northwestern University Press

• On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Suffering, Earth

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, III, 1877.

• Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Kissing, Land, And Love

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.911, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

• Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Sorrow

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.254, Oxford University Press

• Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Morning, Stars, Autumn

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.362, Macmillan

• Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Perception, Earth

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “The Grand Inquisitor”, p.14, Xist Publishing

• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Heart, Angel

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

• It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Men, Looks

• At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Keys, Sky, Drawing

• ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.1064, First Avenue Editions

• If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Please Me, Say Anything

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Eye, Infinite Time

• For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Goes On

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

• The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  World, Earth, Absurd

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.730, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

• There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Attitude, Views, Earth

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