Fyodor Dostoevsky Is Quotations

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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 there is no God, then I am God.

If God is dead, everything is allowed.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.