Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Why is it also that when you have woken up and completely recovered your sense of reality, you feel each time, sometimes with great intensity, that you have left behind something personally unresolved along with your dream? You laugh at the absurdity of your dream, yet at the same time sense that there is a sort of idea inherent in the interweaving of these absurdities, but this idea is actual and has to do with your life, something existing in your heart now, as it has always done; something new, prophetic, and yet expected, has been told to you by your dream; the impression is vivid; it may be joyful or agonizing, but what it was or what has been said to you- all this you are unable either to comprehend or recall.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from The Idiot
topics: dreams
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.