The quotations of

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russian novelist

1821–1881

55 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and God.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
- Sleep
- Truth & Lies
If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.
Letter to Mme. N. D. Fonvisin (1854), in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends (1914), trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Letter XXI, p. 71
Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth! But they won’t understand that. No, they won’t understand it.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I
- Truth & Lies
I have seen the truth — it is not as though I had invented it with my mind, I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul for ever.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), ch. V
- Truth & Lies
Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
Crime and Punishment (1867), Part VI, Chapter IVIn context
- Truth & Lies
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IVIn context
- Truth & Lies
Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself
Notes from Underground (1864), Part I: Underground, Chapter XIIn context
- Friendship
- Truth & Lies
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise!
The Idiot (1869), Part IV, Chapter VIn context
- Happiness
- Truth & Lies

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