15 Meaningful Quotes by Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life without hope is futile and wasted. Hope is the essence of life. It is what gives you strength and purpose. Life without hope is just surviving and not living to its fullest.

Power is only for those who are crazy enough to reach out for it. Power resides in the deepest trenches of perversion and immorality. One has to dare to lower themselves into the dirt and seize it to get it.

When you truly love someone, you strip your mind of all preconceived notions and see them in their most pristine form, with all their perfections and flaws alike, all their scars and beauty alike, and love them despite it. Love is acceptance.

Only when you understand and embrace sorrow can you find happiness. When you know the root of sadness, you realise where you can find happiness.

Beauty is as terrifying as it is mysterious. It has led men on roads that are mysterious and dangerous. The pursuit of beauty is as dangerous as it is alluring.

Work is the essence of life. Without meaningful work, humans lose their purpose for living and spiral down into a pit of purposeless, undefined petty existence.

People are so fixated on looking at the dark side that they rarely see the joys that they are surrounded with. Focus on the silver linings and you’ll find there are too many to count. The dark clouds will surely pass.

Words unsaid are the most painful. Our hesitancy to say what is needed and to speak out our hearts often leads to disappointment and regret. Most of the unhappiness in the world is rooted in the regret of things left unsaid.

You can always find a new perspective to something every time you look at it. Every subject reveals a new aspect of it everytime you study it.

Realists are ready to accept every result that may come their way. They accept things for how they are without objecting to it. Too many people fear the results in case it ends up unfavourable to what they were wishing for.

Illusions are what keep people entrapped. If you build the illusion of freedom people will never know they are imprisoned.

Pain and suffering are an irreplaceable part of life. You cannot grow and mature without pain and suffering. Think of every challenge in your life as a valuable lesson.

The truth is always a burden. It takes a lot to speak the truth and face the consequences. While flattery is the easiest, the truth is the most difficult to speak.

The best can be seen only in the worst of times. Just as the stars shine the brightest when canvassed against the darkest of skies, the best in us shines only when we are at the worst state of our life.

Sadness is better than fake happiness. Only fools desire happiness even if built by blatant lies and illusions.