Dostoevsky Suffering Quotes & Sayings

What is hell? ... The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what's irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy. They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill. — Lil' Kim

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally. — Angelus Silesius

I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing. — Bernie Marsden

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up. — Sandy Duncan

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistics, believers should never forget Dostoevsky's assertion that the suffering of children is the greatest proof against the existence of God; for without justice, there is no God. — Thomas Cahill

Behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge — William Shakespeare

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't hit other people, don't take their stuff and keep your promises. — David Boaz

Can we make promises to each other, as if we were truly married? Can we swear to be true and faithful and love only each other and all those things? Because I'm in such pain, Margherita, I need to have you, I need to know that you're mine. I've been in torment since I first saw you. No, since I first heard you singing from you tower height. Please, mia bella bianca, please let us swear to each other. Love breaks all spells, I know it does. Wear my ring and let me know-"
She stopped his words with her mouth, cupping both hands about his face. Then she sat back to show him the ring on her finger. "I swear it all. Is that good enough? Because I really need you to kiss me again. — Kate Forsyth

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing. — Roger Moore

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love. — LeAnne Mechelle

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love. — Graham Greene

Only through suffering can we find ourselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky