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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes From the Underground

  • b4063241149has quoted2 years ago
    They laughed cynically at my face, at my clumsy figure; and yet what stupid faces they had themselves.
  • dream sunnyhas quotedlast year
    As the children grow up you feel that you are an example, a support for them; that even after you die your children will always keep your thoughts and feelings, because they have received them from you, they will take on your semblance and likeness.
  • se0enahas quotedlast year
    Why, do you suppose he really loves you, that lover of yours? I don’t believe it. How can he love you when he knows you may be called away from him any minute? He would be a low fellow if he did! Will he have a grain of respect for you? What have you in common with him? He laughs at you and robs you—that is all his love amounts to! You are lucky if he does not beat you. Very likely he does beat you, too. Ask him, if you have got one, whether he will marry you. He will laugh in your face, if he doesn’t spit in it or give you a blow—though maybe he is not worth a bad halfpenny himself. And for what have you ruined your life, if you come to think of it?
  • Alissonhas quotedlast year
    bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I should be appeased
  • Rina Madihas quotedlast year
    did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.
  • mendozajamilamedizinahas quoted2 days ago
    ut this was pleasant and good for me. On returning home I deferred for a time my desire to embrace all mankind.
  • mendozajamilamedizinahas quoted2 days ago
    so on. I had the patience to sit like a fool beside these people for four hours at a stretch, listening to them without knowing what to say to them or venturing to say a word. I became stupefied, several times I felt myself perspiring, I was overcome by a sort of paralysis; but this was pleasant and good for me.
  • mendozajamilamedizinahas quoted2 days ago
    I had to call on Anton Antonitch, however, on Tuesday--his at-home day; so I had always to time my passionate desire to embrace humanity so that it might fall on a Tuesday.
  • mendozajamilamedizinahas quoted2 days ago
    I could never stand more than three months of dreaming at a time without feeling an irresistible desire to plunge into society.
  • mendozajamilamedizinahas quoted2 days ago
    Everyone would kiss me and weep (what idiots they would be if they did not), while I should go barefoot and hungry preaching new ideas and fighting a victorious Austerlitz against the obscurantists.
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