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When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moving On, Heart, Past

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspiration, Heart, Know How
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.841, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Serenity, Age
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.201, Google Publishing

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Heart, Character
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Feelings, Suffering

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Glowing, Joy
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Past, Thinking

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mother, Baby, Heart

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Heart, Angel
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.758, Clap Publishing, LLC.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Sorrow, Wells
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty, Heart, Fighting
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Heart, Infinite
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.535, Google Publishing

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Mind, Consciousness

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.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Unhappy, Fool
"The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Suffering, Ease

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
True Friend, Heart, Compassion

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Understanding, Mind
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.37, Google Publishing

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Brain, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.81, Vintage

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.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Men, Sensitive Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.125, Vintage

Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Pride, Sarcasm

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eye, Heart, Sick
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Real, Heart, Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.13, Modern Library

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christian, Jesus, Heart
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.402, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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