"Much unhappiness has come into the world..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.”

“'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'”

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.”

“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.”

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

“Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.”

“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”

“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”

“If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.”