Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Wikipedia

• Born: November 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia

• Died: January 28, 1881, Saint Petersburg

• Education: Military Engineering-Technical University

• Written: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Gambler, The House of the Dead, Poor Folk, The Adolescent, The Insulted and Humiliated, An Honest Thief, Netochka Nezvanova, The Eternal Husband, The Village of Stepanchikovo, The Landlady, Uncle's Dream

Great Thoughts Of Dostoevsky

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding 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."

"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

"I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared."

"To think too much is a disease."

"The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx."

" I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"If God does not exist, then everything is permissible."

"Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."