#underground notes

[fullmetalfisting]

Arguably one of the funniest ways to begin a novel

[danielenjoyer]

Whenever I have a bad day I just look over to my bookshelf at the cover of Eric being in bondage and being stepped on by his wife and then everything is right in the world

[diabolicalrat]

I lied I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. Let’s discuss Dostoevsky.

[philosophybits]

Sarcasm [is] usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[kratomqueen]

[wedarkacademia]

I wanted "peace," to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

[hamoodmood]

[academic-vampire]

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Garo (ガロ) / Seirindō (青林堂) / Jun 1994 issue

[girlmetamorphed]

dostoevsky was so funny in the sense that he’ll start a story/novel by saying “and please forgive me if i’ve omitted important details or facts, but if i mention everything with full explanation i would fill a very large volume!” and then describes every little thing, emotion, feeling and thought his characters are having like yes king !! go off the rails !! oh you’re saying 400 pages aren’t enough for your little story?? no worries!! cause we don’t mind reading a 700+ page retelling of a story !! people in their teens and 20 somethings yearn for your writings !!!

[amicus-noctis]

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Franz Kafka

Drawings by Franz Kafka from his sketchbook, circa 1901-7. Literary Estate of Max Brod, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo by Ardon Bar Hama

[crucifiedlovers]

My life [was] gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

[alifethatilove]

Fyodor Dostoevsky // The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; Notes from Underground.

[diabolicalrat]

Babe you’re so delusional you belong in a Dostoevsky novel

[philosophybits]

A man is so prone to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared to distort the truth on purpose, prepared to deny the visible and the audible just so he can justify his own logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[emeralddss]

spending my days at the library