Dostoevsky's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Beauty will save the world. · Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right? · Man is a mystery. It must be solved.. (Updated Feb 7, 2026.)
"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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Top 12
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Beauty will save the world.
The Idiot (1869), Part Three, chapter 5.
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Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?
Crime and Punishment (1866), Part Five, chapter 4.
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Man is a mystery. It must be solved.
Letter to his brother Mikhail, 16 August 1839.
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Man is broad, too broad even; I would narrow him.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Dmitri.
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5
Here the devil is fighting with God, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Dmitri.
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It is not worth the tears of that one tortured child.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), chapter "Rebellion", Ivan.
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What is hell? The suffering of being no longer able to love.
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), the teachings of Elder Zosima.
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Compassion is the chief and perhaps the only law of all human existence.
The Idiot (1869), Part Two, chapter 5.
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Man is a creature that can get used to anything.
Notes from the House of the Dead (1862).
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Money is coined freedom.
Notes from the House of the Dead (1862).
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Twice two makes four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
Notes from Underground (1864).
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12
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Notes from Underground (1864).
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