Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Desire

• Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Desire, Show Me, Something Better

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.126, Modern Library

• He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mind, Desire, Faces

• Se ríen de la obediencia, el ayuno y la oración, pero sólo a través de ellos se alcanza la verdadera libertad. Corto mis deseos superfluos e innecesarios, sojuzgo mi voluntad orgullosa y gratuita y la castigo con la obediencia, y con la ayuda de Dios alcanzo la libertad de espíritu y con ella la alegría espiritual.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Choices, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.117, Modern Library

• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

• The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Powerful, Rights, Self

  FIÓDOR MIJÁILOVICH DOSTOIEVSKI (1952). "GRANDES LIBROS DEL MUNDO OCCIDENTAL

• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Joy, Humanity, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• En ese momento debí haberme marchado, pero surgió en mí una extraña sensación, una especie de desafío al destino, un deseo de desafiarlo, de sacarle la lengua. Hice la mayor apuesta permitida -cuatro mil florines- y la perdí. Luego, acalorado, saqué todo lo que me quedaba, aposté al mismo número y volví a perder, tras lo cual me alejé de la mesa como si estuviera aturdido. Ni siquiera podía comprender lo que me había sucedido.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fate, Gone Away, Numbers

• Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Desire, Enough

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2010). “Crime And Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.544, Random House

• Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Grief, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.106, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• Pero es precisamente en esta fría y repugnante mitad desesperación, mitad creencia, en este enterrarse deliberadamente bajo tierra durante cuarenta años por puro dolor, en esta desesperanza asiduamente construida y, sin embargo, algo dudosa, en toda esta poción de deseos insatisfechos vueltos hacia dentro, esta fiebre de vacilaciones, de resoluciones adoptadas para la eternidad y de arrepentimientos un momento después, donde se encuentra la esencia misma de ese extraño y punzante placer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pain, Years, Essence

• Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Heart, Desire

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

• Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, Desire

  The Brothers Karamazov bk. 12, ch. 5 (1879 - 1880) (translation by Constance Garnett)

• A veces deseamos tonterías absolutas porque en nuestra estupidez vemos en estas tonterías la manera más fácil de alcanzar algún bien conjetural.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupidity, Desire, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.117, Modern Library

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