Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man who lies to himself and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other people and to himself.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Beauty will save the world.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

It is precisely the impossible that one must believe in; it is precisely the absurd that one must desire.

Fools are more happy than wits.

Man has an innate craving for freedom, but at the same time he has a greater craving for happiness.

A society has no right to offend its weaker members.

The more a man is in the right, the more violent he is.