Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

I have established Laws in the universe that make it possible for you to have-to create-exactly what you choose. These Laws cannot be violated, nor can they be ignored. You are following these Laws right now, even as you read this. You cannot not follow the Law, for these are the ways things work. You cannot step aside from this; you cannot operate outside of it.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.