Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotations | Page 3

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

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

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.