White Nights Quotes

“if my arm trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little
hand like yours.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Why isn’t he you? Why isn’t he like you? He is not as good as you, though I love him more than you.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“you shouldn’t regret begging; it shows that you love her more than anything else in the world, and far more than you love yourself.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“you shouldn’t regret begging; it shows that you love him more than anything else in the world, and far more than you love yourself.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“you generously accepted the gift of my shattered heart to care for it, nurse it, and heal it. . . . If you forgive me, the memory of you will be exalted by a feeling of everlasting gratitude”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“If she has forsaken me now, if she has forgotten me, though I still love her.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“It’s only tears, they will soon dry.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“How easy it is for her to wound, to insult a poor, defenceless man, whose only fault is that he loves her!”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“How easy it is for her to wound, to insult a poor, defenceless man, whose only fault is that she loves her!”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Why you shouldn’t regret begging: "it shows that you love her more than anything else in the world, and far more than you love yourself.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I do not blame you because I have no power over your heart, such is my fate!”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“When I come back, if you still love me, I swear we will be happy. Right now, it is impossible. I am not able, and I do not have the right to promise anything. That is, of course, if you do not prefer anyone else, for I cannot and dare not bind you by any sort of promise.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“making my confession, without expecting to be understood; but to my surprise she was silent, waiting a little, then she faintly pressed my hand and with timid sympathy”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“he desires nothing, because he is superior to all desire”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“the expression of an unhappy kitten treacherously captured, roughly handled, frightened and subjected to all sorts of indignities by children, till, utterly crestfallen, it hides away from them under a chair in the dark, and there must needs at its leisure bristle up, spit, and wash its insulted face with both paws, and long afterwards look angrily at life and nature, and even at the bits saved from the master’s dinner for it by the sympathetic housekeeper?”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Oh no, I see people, of course; but still I am alone.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Of course, one does not look for an adviser in the street; but you are an exception. I know you as though we had been friends for twenty years. . . . You won’t deceive me, will you? . . .”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“if my arm trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little hand like yours.”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I am ready for friendship; here’s my hand. . . .But you mustn’t fall in love with me, I beg you!”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“I am ready for friendship;
here’s my hand. . . . But you mustn’t fall in love with me, I beg you!”
― Feodor Dostoevsky, White Nights