"As for me, this is my story:..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.”
“In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.”
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”
More on Work
“The ox suffers, the cart complains.”
“When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.”
“...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.”
More on Suffering
“The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.”
“I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices”
“I want nothing but death.”