Fyodor Dostoevsky Earth Quotations

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?