"Notes from Underground" Quotes

I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

I swear to you, gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Two times two makes four is a good thing, but two times two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time.

I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.

It's not that I don't accept God, you must understand, it's the world created by Him I don't and cannot accept.

Desires are sometimes the most pleasant things in life, but they're also the most dangerous. They're the only things worth having.

Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation.