Quotogeny

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Quotes about despair

  1. The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyDemonsPart 3, chapter 7 ("Stepan Trofimovitch's Last Wandering"), section 3Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky

  2. People, love one another — who said that? Whose commandment is that?

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Meek OneChapter 2, section 4 ("Only Five Minutes Too Late")The pawnbroker, the story's narrator

  3. If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and meaningless character.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe House of the DeadPart 1, chapter 2 ("First Impressions")

  4. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 2, Book 6, chapter 3 ("Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zossima"), section (i) ("Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystic Reflection")Father Zosima

Circulating, but not genuine

  1. The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!

    Misattributedattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky

  2. The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.

    Not found in their worksattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky

  3. All this struggle for life that just ends on a random day.

    Not found in their worksattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky

  4. The most terrifying freedom is discovering that even your suffering is your own fault.

    Not found in their worksattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky