Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes about Desire

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Stupidity, Desire, Way

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

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.

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