"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.“


-Fyodor Dostoevsky

posted in work


Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

womenView Quote
"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

powerView Quote
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

moneyView Quote
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

menView Quote
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

loveView Quote
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

hopeView Quote

More Quotes About work

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."

-Tom Stoppard

workView Quote
"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."

-Jeff Bridges

workView Quote
"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

-Tom Stoppard

workView Quote
"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

-Novalis

workView Quote
"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."

-Caspar David Friedrich

workView Quote
"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

-Brian Eno

workView Quote