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“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
― Terry Pratchett

“If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
― Peter Ustinov

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“My brain? That's my second favorite organ.”
― Woody Allen

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
― Woody Allen

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?”
― Woody Allen

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
― Woody Allen

“Without God all things are permitted.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
― Woody Allen

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?”
― Woody Allen

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side. ”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky