"Oh I've plenty of time, my time..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.”
“We are citizens of eternity.”
“Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.”
More on Time
“A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”
“I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.”
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.”
More on Freedom
“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”
“Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.”
“Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.”