If there is no God, then I am God.
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyDemonsPart 3, chapter 6 ("A Busy Night"), section 2Kirillov
What if I were not to die! What if I could go back to life — what eternity! I would turn every minute into an age; I would lose nothing, I would count every minute as it passed.
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPart 1, chapter 5Prince Myshkin, retelling what a man reprieved on the scaffold told him
If he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPart 2, chapter 6Rodion Raskolnikov, to himself
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyA Writer's DiaryDecember 1876, chapter 1, section 3 ("Unfounded Assertions")
Circulating, but not genuine
All this struggle for life that just ends on a random day.
Not found in their worksattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky