The Brothers Karamazov

"My friends, let me tell you, I have been tormented by terrible suspicions."

"I cannot understand how the strong can help being despots."

"All I care about is that somewhere there should be people happy."

"The more we love, the more we suffer."

"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it is almost impossible."

"I have said already that I accept God, but I do not accept His creation."

"The hardest thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."

"I believe in Russia with all the passion of my thwarted love."

"The more reasonable you are, the less chance of anything great happening to you."

"I am a realist, but not a scientific realist."

"I want to travel about all over the world and find out why the spirit of man cannot be appeased in any shape."

"The more I study the world, the less faith I have in it; and the less faith I have in it, the more faith I have in something else."

"I am unhappy precisely because I cannot be content with anything metaphysical."

"To be acutely conscious is a disease."

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him."

"There are moments of eternal harmony, a precious and active love."

"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It is precisely one's neighbors that one cannot love."

"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in the old way."

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for."

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."

"The pursuit of knowledge without wisdom leads to destruction."

"Passion can lead to either salvation or damnation."

"The heart's truth transcends logical reasoning."

"One must choose between comfort and truth."

"Pain and suffering give meaning to human existence."

"The nature of real love is sacrifice and suffering."

"The struggle for truth is the noblest of all pursuits."

"We punish ourselves by our own guilt more than any judge can punish us."