Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a mans laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Its usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. Its such a cliche to say that artists write when theyre down, but its true for me. Its a relief to get out whats eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. – Ellie Goulding