"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
HappinessView Quote
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.“
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
posted in Women
Other Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Discover more inspiring quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
HopeView Quote
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
WorkView Quote
"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
DeathView Quote
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
HappinessView Quote
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
HappinessView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
-William Shakespeare
WomenView Quote
"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."
-Elie Wiesel
WomenView Quote
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-Robert A. Heinlein
WomenView Quote
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
-Conan O'Brien
WomenView Quote
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
-Oscar Wilde
WomenView Quote
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
-Jean Kerr
WomenView Quote