Demons Fyodor Quotes & Sayings

If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

a wise man is not afraid to face the truth — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That's precisely what my novel is about. It's called Demons, and it's a description of how these demons entered the herd of swine. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Siberia taught Dostoyevsky much that would be fictionalized in Demons, including criminal speech, the criminal mind and the ways of officialdom. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.'
'So, that other God does exist, in your opinion?'
'He doesn't exist, but he does exist. In the stone there' no pain, but in the fear of the stone there is pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. Whoever conquers pain and fear will himself become God. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky