Notes From The Underground Quotes

Notes From The Underground Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky and many others.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man on

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or finish anything.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am a sick man…I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
Fyodor Dostoevsky