Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
romantic · russian-literature
Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky · 1821–1881 · Russian
Novelist of the underground and the monastery. Lying to oneself, the love of suffering, and the need of a story.
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
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.
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.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.