Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I feel like we all have our skeletons.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed.

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.