The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Quotes

“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I want to suffer so that I may love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“وقد بلغتُ من شدّة عدم اكتراثي أن تمنيتُ في النهاية أن أقبض على دقيقة واحدة أحسُ فيها أن شيئاً ما يستحقُ الاهتمام.”
― فيودور دوستويفسكي, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“يقولون الآن إنني ضللت الطريق, وما دُمت فعلتُ فإلى أين سأصل؟ وهذه حقيقةٌ لا غبار عليها: لقد ضللتٌ وقد تسوءٌ الأمور أكثر في المستقبل. ولا شك أنني سأضيعٌ أكثر من مَرّة قبل أن أهتدي إلى سواء السبيل.”
― فيودور دوستويفسكي, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything at all: I began to feel with all my being that there was nothing existing. At first I fancied that many things had existed in the past, but afterwards I guessed that there never had been anything in the past either, but that it had only seemed so for some reason. Little by little I guessed that there would be nothing in the future either. Then I left off being angry with people and almost ceased to notice them. Indeed this showed itself even in the pettiest trifles: I used, for instance, to knock against people in the street. And not so much from being lost in thought: what had I to think about? I had almost given up thinking by that time; nothing mattered to me. If at least I had solved my problems! Oh, I had not settled one of them, and how many there were! But I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“أصبحتُ فجأةً لا أغضبُ من الناس، بل ما عدتُ ألاحظُ وجودَهم.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“كيف يمكن التعايش مع الفكرة التي تقول :” إن وعي الحياة فوق الحياة نفسها ، ومعرفة قوانين السعادة – هي أعلى من السعادة”– أن ما يجب النضال ضده هي هذه الفكرة بالتحديد.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst in this moment to kiss, weeping tears, that very earth which I left and I do not desire or accept life on any other! . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“لقد تعلموا الكذب وأحبوه وعرفوا مواطن الجمال فيه، ربما بدأ الأمر بريئاً على سبيل المزاح أو الغنج والدعابة واللعب. وحقيقة الأمر أن البداية كانت ذرة، وأن ذرة الكذب تلك تسربت إلى قلوبهم وأعجبتهم !”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“إن ما يحرك الأحلام فينا هي الرغبة وليس العقل، هو القلب وليس الرأس.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“ما أصعَبَ الأمر على من يعرف الحقيقةَ وحده.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“من منا ﻻ يضل الطريق ومع ذلك نسير جميعًا إلى غاية واحدة أو
لنقل يسعى الجميع إلى نهاية واحدة، من الحكيم حتى آخر
مجرم حتى وإن اختلفت السبل.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“كنت أجلس طوال الليل وفي الحقيقة لم أكن أنصت إليهم. أو اسمعهم. بل لقد نسيت وجودهم. لقد اعتدت أن أجلس على المقعد إلى الطاولة طوال الليل دون أن أفعل شيئًا. أجلس فحسب ولا أفكر.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me — and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter — not exactly at myself, but through affection for them, if I did not feel so sad as I look at them. Sad because they do not know the truth and I do know it. Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth! But they won't understand that. No, they won't understand it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“A dream is a strange thing. Pictures appear with terrifying clarity, the minutest details engraved like pieces of jewelry, and yet we leap unawares through huge abysses of time and space. Dreams seem to be controlled by wish rather than reason, the heart rather than the head–and yet, what clever, tricky convolutions my reason sometimes makes while I’m asleep! Things quite beyond comprehension happen to reason in dreams!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“It remained inaccessible to my mind, even though my heart unconsciously became increasingly suffused with it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“But we have science, and through it
we shall again find the truth, but we shall now accept it consciously, knowledge is
higher than feelings, the consciousness of life is higher than life. Science will give us
wisdom, wisdom will discover laws, and knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher
than happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I had almost given up thinking by that time; nothing mattered to me. If at least I had solved my problems! Oh, I had not settled one of them, and how
many there were! But I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man