Dostoevsky quotes about loneliness

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

“Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

“Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death.

But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

“Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

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