Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cites

• Bible (2)
  • IN: The Brother Karamazov (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat all into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
    FROM: Bible, John 12:24, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Demons (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them leave. Then the demons came out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country. Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. And those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed with demons was healed.
    FROM: Luke 8:33-36 (RSV), (100), Bible, NULL
• Ivan Turgenev (1)
  • IN: The Gambler and Other Stories (1877) Fiction, Anthology, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...Or was his destiny from the start To be but just one moment Near your heart?...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Prince V. F. Odoyevsky (1)
  • IN: Poor Folk and Other Stories (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, those storytellers! They can't rest content with writhing something useful, agreeable, palatable - they have to dig up all the earth's most cherished secrets! .... I'd forbid them to write, that's what I'd do! I mean, have you ever known the like? A man reads... and finds himself reflecting - and before he knows where he is, all kinds of rubbish come into his head. I'd forbid them to write, truly I would; forbid them to write altogether!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Crocodile (1865) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ohé Lambert! Où est Lambert? As-tu vu Lambert
    FROM: A popular French saying, (1850), NULL, France
• A.S. Pushkin (1)
  • IN: Demons (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Upon my life, the tracks have vanished, We've lost our way, what shall we do? It must be a demon's leading us This way and that around the fields. ...... How many are there? Where have they flown to? Why do they sing so plaintively? Are they burying some household goblin? Is it some witch's wedding day?
    FROM: "Demons", (1830), Poem, Russia
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Crocodie (1985) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: An Unusual Incident Or An Arcane Affair at the Arcade a truthful story about how one gentleman, of a certain age and a certain appearance, was swallowed alive by a crocodile, without a single trace, and what came out Ohé, Lambert! Où est Lambert? As-tu vu Lambert?
    FROM: The Crocodile, (1865), Short Story, NULL

Cited by

• Patrick White (1)
  • IN: The Solid Mandala (1969) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It was an old and rather poor church, many of the ikons were without settings, but such churces are the best for praying sin.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Waguih Ghali (1)
  • IN: Beer in the Snooker Club (1964) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Rather, we aim at being personalites of a general... a fictitious type.
    FROM: Notes from Underground, (1864), Novel, Russia
• Richard Flanagan (1)
  • IN: Wanting (2008) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: You see, reason, gentlemen, is a fine thing, that is unquestionable, but reason is only reason and satisfies only man's reasoning capacity, while wanting is a manifestation of the whole of life.
    FROM: Notes from Underground, (1864), Novel, Russia
• Orhan Pamuk (1)
  • IN: Snow (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European enlightenment is more important than people.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Dan Vyleta (1)
  • IN: The Crooked Maid (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: In answering them, he said, among other things, that he had indeed been away from Russia for a long time, more than four years, that he had been sent abroad on account of illness,.. listening to him, the swarthy man grinned several times; he laughed particularly when, to his question: "And did they cure you?" the blond man answered: "no they didn't."
    FROM: The Idiot, (1869), Novel, Russia
• Carrie Fisher (1)
  • IN: Surrender the Pink (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
    FROM: Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Louisa Hall (1)
  • IN: Speak (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Consequently we have only to discover these laws of nature, and man will no longer have to answer for his actions and life will become exceedingly easy for him. All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.
    FROM: Notes from Underground, (1864), Book, Russia
• Leslie Glass (1)
  • IN: Burning Time (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But profound as psychology is, it’s a knife that cuts both ways
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Bret Anthony Johnston (1)
  • IN: Remember Me Like This (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Well, when one has no one, nowhere else can one go.
    FROM: Crime and Punishment, (1866), Novel, Russia
• David Ignatius (1)
  • IN: The Director (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
    FROM: Crime and Punishment, (1866), Novel, Russia
• Elie Wiesel (1)
  • IN: The Judges (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If the judge were just, perhaps the criminal would not be guilty.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Ron Rash (1)
  • IN: The Risen (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And after that the punishment began.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Stefanie Pintoff (1)
  • IN: In the Shadow of Gotham (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Russia
• Victoria Patterson (1)
  • IN: The Little Brother (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the majority of instances human beings, even the evil-doers among them, are far more naive and straightforward than we suppose. And that include ourselves.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: Carthage (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled and then bow down to all the world and say to all men, "I am a murderer!" Then God will send you life again.
    FROM: Crime and Punishment, (1866), Novel, Russia
• Thomas Maltman (1)
  • IN: Little Wolves (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the riddles meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Crocodie (1985) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: An Unusual Incident Or An Arcane Affair at the Arcade a truthful story about how one gentleman, of a certain age and a certain appearance, was swallowed alive by a crocodile, without a single trace, and what came out Ohé, Lambert! Où est Lambert? As-tu vu Lambert?
    FROM: The Crocodile, (1865), Short Story, NULL
• Carlene Bauer (1)
  • IN: Frances and Bernard (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So, I have written you a love letter, oh, my God, what have I done!
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Bret Easton Ellis (1)
  • IN: American Psycho (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Both the author of these Notes and the Notes themselves are, of course, fictional. Nevertheless, such persons as the composer of these Notes not only exist in our society, but indeed must exist, considering the circumstances under which our society has genearlly been formed. I have wished to bring before the public, somewhat more distinctly than usual, one of the characters of our recent past. He represents a generation that is still living out its days among us. In the fragment entitled "Underground" this personage described himself and his views and attempts, as it were, to clarify the reasons why he appeared and was bound to appear in our midst. The subsequent fragment will consist of the actual "notes," concerning certain events in his life.
    FROM: Notes from Underground, (1864), Novel, Russia
• Christoffer Carlsson (1)
  • IN: October is the Coldest Month (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Man is a mystery.
    FROM: NULL, (1839), Letter, Russia
• Leïla Slimani (1)
  • IN: Lullaby (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Do you understand, dear sir, do you understand what it means when there is absolutely nowhere to go?' Marmaladov's question of the previous day came suddenly into his mind. 'For every man must have somewhere to go.'
    FROM: Crime and Punishment, (1866), Novel, Russia
• Leila Slimani (1)
  • IN: The Perfect Nanny (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Do you understand, dear sir, do you understand what it means when there is absolutely nowhere to go?" Marmeladov's question of the previous day came suddenly into his mind. "For every man must have somewhere to go."
    FROM: Crime and Punishment, (1866), Novel, Russia
• Mario Puzo (3)
  • IN: The Family (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded. Though I may be following the devil, I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee, and I feel the joy without which the world cannot stand.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
  • IN: The Dark Arena (1953) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. They live upon their vindictive pride like a starving man in the desert sucking blood out of his own body. But they are never satisfied, and they refuse forgiveness, they curse God Who calls them. They cannot behold the living God without hatred, and they cry out that the God of life should be annihilated, that God should destroy Himself and His own creation. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death...
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Jasper Kent (1)
  • IN: The People's Will (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Only the scoundrels have forgotten that strength is with those whose blood flows, not with those who cause blood to be shed. There it is - the law of blood on earth.
    FROM: Dostoyevsky's notes for his 1881 diary, shortly before his death, (1881), NULL, Russia