White Nights Quotes

“Oh, Nastenka! You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“And you recall that your dreams were sad then as well, and even though it was not better then, nevertheless, you somehow feel that it was easier, that you lived more comfortably, that there wasn’t this black brooding that troubles you now; that you didn’t have these pangs of conscience, these gloomy, dismal pangs that now give you no peace night or day. And you ask yourself: Where are your dreams? And you shake your head and say: How quickly do the years fly by! And again you ask yourself: What have you done with your years? Where have you buried your best days? Did you live or not?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Indeed, he is prepared to believe at certain moments that all of this life is not the excitement of feelings, not a mirage, not a delusion of the imagination, but that it is, indeed, authentic, genuine, real!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Believe it or not, not a single woman, ever, ever! No acquaintances at all! And all I dream of every day is that at long last I will finally meet someone. Oh, if only you knew how many times I’ve fallen in love like that! …’
‘But how, with whom? …’
‘Why with nobody, with an ideal, with the one I see in my dreams. I create entire love stories in my dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Then this letter will tell you that I do not complain, nor do I blame you. I do not blame you that I have no power over your heart; such then, is my fate!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“How easy it is for him to wound, to insult a poor defenseless girl, whose only fault is that she loves him!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Ah, bir bilseydiniz, bu şekilde kaç kez aşık olduğumu!..

Ama nasıl olur, peki kime?

Birine değil, bir ideale, hayal ettiğim kişiye. Hayallerde başlıbaşına romanlar yaratıyorum.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“I’m reminded of a Spanish witticism, when two and a half centuries ago the French built the first madhouse: ‘They locked up all their fools in a special building to reassure themselves that they’re the sane ones.’ But really, locking somebody else up in a madhouse doesn’t prove that you have brains. ‘K. lost his mind, that means we are sane.’ No, that isn’t what that means.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights