Fyodor Dostoevsky Consciousness Quotations

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.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.