Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Related Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worshi... BHAGAVAD GITA I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worsh... BHAGAVAD GITA Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too ... ESTHER EARL Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. ARISTOTLE Dear Past, I'm a better me because of you! Dear Future, you inspire me to accomplish great things. AIMEE CARROLL The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, a... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I no longer fear battles and storms that come in the path but afraid of losing someone that is dear ... IRFA RAHAT I got used to the fact that people who surround me and who're dear for me- are not limited in their ... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST There is no one hateful or dear to Me. But, those who worship Me with devotion, they are with Me and... BHAGAVAD GITA There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer so... MARY WORLEY MONTAGU my dear all the way you drove me . thought it was me . examples are too many .which one i... LITYMUNSHI In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "W... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. CORRIE TEN BOOM i misss the days you would hold me tight love me dear kiss me soft and whisper in my ears those litt... HASSAN OLANREWAJU This isn't the life I thought we'd have, my love.
This isn't the way I thought we'd be living, my de... JESSICA MADLE The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, alw... RUTA SEPETYS Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
Long, long ago, long, long ago. THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Near, so very near to God,
Nearer I cannot be;
For in the person of his Son
I am as near... CATESBY PAGET While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, h... RITA MAE BROWN Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not? SAKURA TSUKUBA One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that... SOURCE UNKNOWN My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds o... BILAL TANWEER Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that." G. WILLOW WILSON O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. WALT WHITMAN Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t... GWENDOLYN BENNETT Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do every... HOMER Dear me, one day I'll make you proud. CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Dear God, I surrender this relationship to you,” means, “Dear God, let me see this person throug... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten tha... DAVE MATTHES Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi... EVELYN WAUGH Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to c... SARA DAVIDSON Adieu, dear heart, nothing but death can make me cease to love you. MARIE ANTOINETTE Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my de... MARGARET MITCHELL To me that's the best part of the show and the best part of the business. Occasionally you are bless... ANTHONY HEAD To me that's the best part of the show and the best part of the business. Occasionally you are bless... ANTHONY STEWART HEAD Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the... BHAGAVAD GITA The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.' ERIC CLOSE Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long,... SARA DAVIDSON Have you been lately in Sussex?" said Elinor. "I was at Norland about a month ago." "And h... JANE AUSTEN Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dear athiests,
The Lord God is still God no matter what you say or believe. You will still bow down ... NORM TOMLINSON I lived here before, cold, lonely, clueless of why I still dwell in this place.Needing to forgive my... TANICA S HALL The stage is near and dear to me. BELA LUGOSI I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way , when and if you a... AYN RAND Bahrain is very dear to me. HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA Milram allows me the chance to pursue races which are very dear to me, such as the Tour de France wh... ERIK ZABEL Dear Pat, You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, ‘Why ... JOHN STEINBECK I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY One of the things I like the most in New Orleans are the old buildings, and the real funky little th... BARBARA ROBERTS It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, n... C.S. LEWIS But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ... LEO TOLSTOY Dear soulmate, whose soul are you still mating? MJ CHRISTINE This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have... IAN FLEMING No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the... MARGARET MITCHELL Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and
sure, dear friends, my thanks are ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I ... THOMAS CAMPBELL Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?' ANNE ARCHER Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One who does not envy but us a compassionate friend to all ... such a devotee is very dear to Me. BHAGAVAD GITA Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them ... RAINER MARIA RILKE You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate ... CHARLES M. SCHULZ All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to... NICOLE KRAUSS Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,
But ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of y... SANHITA BARUAH Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM All I want, oh dear friend of mine, is for you to go out with someone . Do something, even ... LAUREN MORRILL An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sur... THOMAS CAMPBELL We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just go... LAUREN MYRACLE He wrote some to me on different occasions. He wrote one when I turned 16. That one is really very d... DIANE JACOBOWITZ Dear Marie Tussaud, Fake people are everywhere, you do not have to waste wax creating them HARITHA VELPUREDDY The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. KATE DICAMILLO The old man spoke of nothing but shoes. He spoke of them with such love and emotion that a woman in ... RUTA SEPETYS Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can't take me. H. MIDORIKAWA The resolve rising in her soul to die with me drew me I cannot tell you how powerfully, irresistibly... HEINRICH VON KLEIST Some of my friends say to me, “you are ugly’. The others say, ‘you are cute’. So which one i... TOBA BETA Hear again My supreme word, the most secret of all. You are very dear to Me, therefore, I shall tell... BHAGAVAD GITA Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. S... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our la... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You are the Chosen One?” “Of course I am,” said Harry calmly. “But then . .... J.K. ROWLING As a human being, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion. It's just that you're blown out of... TONI COLLETTE Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not qu... MURIEL SPARK Josh Lawrence is a guy that's very dear to me. He's one of the very first guys that said 'yes' to th... TOD KOWALCZYK My dear it was a moment to clutch at for a moment so that you may beleve in it and belie... ANNE SEXTON You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the th... GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amhe... ADONIRAM JUDSON The library smells like old books-a thousand leather doorways into other worlds." "Dear s... LAURA WHITCOMB I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of ou... EZRA CORNELL But a wife..." "...is an individual who can be interesting when one makes use of her, but one m... MARQUIS DE SADE You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the peop... LIBBA BRAY Henry shuffled the jewelled insect back out of his pocket. It amber heart warmed light through the p... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Dear me, how I love a library. ELIZABETH GILBERT
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst ch... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of dou... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every rig... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that de... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting the... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But how could you live and have no story to tell? FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then sudde... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considere... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for h... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If God does not exist, then everything is permitted FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of lo... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you we... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with th... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The high road is something very, very long, of which one cannot see the end - like human life, like ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suff... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of etern... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ..., and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometimes be the means o... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and soli... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such ques... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appea... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediate... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work
and struggle. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Science which has become a great power in the lastcentury, has analyzed everything divine handed dow... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God s... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destro... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very of... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Отцы и учители, мыслю: "что есть ад?" Рассуждаю так: "С... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Wel... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and forme... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Life [had] replaced logic. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY