Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• 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

• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

• This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sorrow, Lasts, Messages

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.30, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

• And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sweet, Love You, Sorrow

• I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Night, Men

• 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

• Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Sorrow, Wells

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sorrow, Commandments

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.77, Macmillan

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