Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Sorrow
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.
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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...
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Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
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