May 2010
28 posts
“-If you shoot yourself, you’ll become God, isn’t that right?
-Yes, I’ll become God.” —Dostoyevsky (via circulationwithinmyskull)
-Yes, I’ll become God.” —Dostoyevsky (via circulationwithinmyskull)
Dostoevsky didn't say it →
infidels.org
A damn good article about the biggest misquotation of the world; “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better then to go right in someone else’s.”
—Crime and Punishment
“When there is love, you can live even without happiness.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via kawaiikao)
“One can say many things about the history of the world—except that it is rational. Give man every earthly blessing, satisfy his every desire, quench his slightest thirst, and he would still destroy what he has—just to prove his freedom.”
—Dostoyevsky (Notes from Underground) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Nobody ever got to a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first. Maybe even a hundred and fourteen.”
—Razumikhin, Crime and Punishment (via staticfiction)
“Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via double-vee)
“I always imagined that you would take me to some place where there was a huge, wicked spider as big as a man, and we should spend the rest of our lives looking at it and being afraid of it. That’s what our love would be wasted on.”
—Dostoevsky - The Devils (via ubu507) (via sendmelies) (via etctatic)
“I may be mistaken, but I fancy that one can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead (1861) (via anin)
“My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.”
—The Brothers Karamazov
“It’s with such nothings that clever people are thrown off most easily. The cleverer the man, the less he suspects that he can be thrown off with the simplest thing. It’s precisely the simplest thing that will throw off the cleverest man.”
—Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (via ctcgagagta)
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
—Notes from the Underground
“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness.” “Just as man created God, then?” observed Alyosha.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via haloonthefloor)
“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
—Crime and Punishment (via mimia)
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via fckyeahtofu)
“Once I started, I couldn’t stop. At the same time I also loved to read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Those books are also page-turners; they’re very long, but I couldn’t stop reading. So for me it’s the same thing, Dostoyevsky and Raymond Chandler. Even now, my ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book. That’s my goal.”
—Haruki Murakami (via brandnewworld)
“…you trashy Prussian hen’s leg in a crinoline!”
—Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment (via alnodc)
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (via procrastinationgirl)
