Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I love those who can smile in trouble"

"To a man who cannot read, his newspaper is his contact with the world"

"The greatest happiness is to believe in oneself"

"All I care about is to live by my own thought"

"I have an immense need of kindness"

"Life is a miracle, even in its sorrows"

"The soul of another is a dark forest, and we must walk carefully through it."

"To love someone means to see them as God intended them to be."

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

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

"Beauty will save the world, but only if we learn to recognize it."

"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness."

"When you love a woman, you do not love her because of her beauty or her intelligence."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"Without suffering, what is the point of being alive?"

"I have a plan—to go mad."

"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."

"Boredom is an insult to oneself."

"I believe in Russia."

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

"Realism means seeing things as they truly are, not as we wish them to be."

"Man needs the unknown, the impossible, and the fantastic."

"Every person has memories which he would not tell to everyone but only to his friends."

"Consciousness is a disease."

"The immature mind hops from one extreme to another."

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

"Tears are a form of prayer too; they are how one reaches God."

"A man may claim to believe anything when no one contradicts him."

"I love the sticky leaves of spring."