Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason

Summary

This quote suggests that meaningful work is crucial for individuals' sense of purpose and mental well-being. Without engaging in work that holds value and gives them a sense of self-fulfillment, people may feel a profound emptiness in their lives. The quote contends that this lack of meaningful work can lead individuals to experience extreme mental distress, driving them to madness or irrational behavior. It highlights the importance of finding work that resonates with one's passion and purpose as a key aspect of maintaining one's sanity and overall happiness.

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

Romantic

It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because

It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time.

Hope Love Friendship Desire Artwork Insipration

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Wisdom Life Children Mystery Adulthood Childhood

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Difficulty

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Design Inspirational

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

Home

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps its

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

Lie Lies Artist Pure

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself m

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

Fear Clever

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Success

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of heigh

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Suicide

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation onc

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

Medical

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the b

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Golf