Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

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 Quote

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

The soul is healed by being with children.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote