Quote of the day by Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love'

A person can be surrounded by others and still feel completely alone. They can have wealth, success, recognition and comfort, yet carry a quiet emptiness that no achievement can fill. For Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, that emptiness was not simply sadness. It was a form of suffering rooted in the loss of the most human connection of all: The ability to love.