# Dostoevsky's most famous quotes

"Beauty will save the world", "Am I a trembling creature", "Man is broad" and "Man is a mystery": the Fyodor Dostoevsky lines everyone knows, with the novel or letter they come from.

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- Feb 7, 2026 · the_wordsmith
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## Top 12

1. **Beauty will save the world.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Idiot (1869), Part Three, chapter 5.
2. **Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crime and Punishment (1866), Part Five, chapter 4.
3. **Man is a mystery. It must be solved.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Letter to his brother Mikhail, 16 August 1839.
4. **Man is broad, too broad even; I would narrow him.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Dmitri.
5. **Here the devil is fighting with God, and the battlefield is the heart of man.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Dmitri.
6. **It is not worth the tears of that one tortured child.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Brothers Karamazov (1880), chapter "Rebellion", Ivan.
7. **What is hell? The suffering of being no longer able to love.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Brothers Karamazov (1880), the teachings of Elder Zosima.
8. **Compassion is the chief and perhaps the only law of all human existence.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Idiot (1869), Part Two, chapter 5.
9. **Man is a creature that can get used to anything.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes from the House of the Dead (1862).
10. **Money is coined freedom.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes from the House of the Dead (1862).
11. **Twice two makes four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes from Underground (1864).
12. **Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Notes from Underground (1864).

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