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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Life, Suffering
FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Climbing, Challenges, Suffering

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Men, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Love Is, Suffering
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Feelings, Suffering

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Broken, Suffering, Break
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Want

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Dignity, Worthy
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sports, Hockey, Suffering
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Wish, Drink
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Suffering, Ease

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

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Able, Consciousness

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Feelings, Suffering, Trying
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.14, Google Publishing

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mistake, Punishment, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Suffering, Sin
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Wells, Idle
"Notes From Underground And The Grand Inquisitor".

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Punishment, Humanity, Suffering
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adversity, Men, Suffering

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, May, Want
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Humanity, Suffering

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Suffering, Earth
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, III, 1877.

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Suffering, New Life
"Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Years, Suffering

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Party, Judging, Suffering

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