Memoirs from the House of the Dead Quotes

“Yet perhaps the whole cause of this violent break in a man from whom it was not in the least to be expected, was a mournful desire for an abrupt display of personality, a longing to be his own self, a wish to declare himself and his own lowly personality, appearing suddenly and developing into fury, insanity, the eclipse of reason, paroxysm, and convulsion. So, perhaps, one buried alive and awakening in his coffin, hammers on its lid and struggles to wrest it off, although, of course, reason might persuade him that all his efforts are vain.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Memoirs from the House of the Dead

“… not without a tinge of that enjoyment of misfortune which is sometimes carried to the length of an irresistible desire to reopen one’s wounds — as though one could be in love with one’s own pain, as though one found true pleasure in the realization of the full extent of one’s unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Memoirs from the House of the Dead

“El resentimiento, al fin y al cabo, es una purificación; ¡es la forma más punzante y penosa de la conciencia!”.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Memoirs from the House of the Dead