Notes From The Underground Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky and many others.
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
I am a sick man…I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or finish anything.
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
