Top 10 Most Famous Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

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

2) Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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

4) To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

5) The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

6) The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

7) I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

8) Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

9) Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.

10) Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.