The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground. the Revolt of the Masses

Once it's been proved to you that you're descended from an ape, it's no use pulling a face; just accept it. Once they've proved to you that a single droplet of your own fat must be dearer to you than a hundred thousand of your fellow human beings and consequently that all so-called virtues and duties are nothing but ravings and prejudices, then accept that too, because there's nothing to be done. Notes from Underground

The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain. Fragment

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Never Give In!