Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.

For me just the fact to be alive is sufficient motivation to want to improve my life quality.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past