Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Suffering

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

• 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

• He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, New Life

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

• Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

• There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Dignity, Worthy

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

• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  True Friend, Heart, Compassion

• Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Feelings, Suffering

• I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Brain, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.81, Vintage

• To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Love Is, Suffering

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

• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Punishment, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

• I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Humanity, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

• What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Able, Consciousness

• And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Men, Roots

• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Want

• For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pain, Understanding, Feelings

• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sad, Men, Seductive

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

• And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Suffering, Ease

• Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Climbing, Challenges, Suffering

• 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.

• It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Race, Effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.439, Bantam Classics

• And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feelings, Suffering, Trying

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.14, Google Publishing

• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sports, Hockey, Suffering

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

• Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Party, Judging, Suffering

• I want to suffer so that I may love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, May, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Broken, Suffering, Break

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing

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