Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: freedom torment subservience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Fyodor Dostoyevsky Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I read about a man who'd been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live an ocean somewhere high up on a rock . . . with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms — and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity — that it would be better to live like that than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I read about a man who'd been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live an ocean somewhere high up on a rock . . . with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms — and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity — that it would be better to live like that than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “freedom” So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: freedom style failure grace triumph defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor freedom reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: freedom thinking speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: freedom style failure grace triumph defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor freedom reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics opinion freedom happiness tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: freedom thinking speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email