The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love"

"I believe in my heart there is a real need of suffering"

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

"A man may believe in the miraculous, and yet not believe in miracles"

"I cannot deny that I am a sensualist"

"The soul is healed by beautiful things"

"I want to live, and I go on living in spite of logic"

"If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted"

"I cannot endure the thought that even one creature should be tortured"

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

"I am a scoundrel, but not a thief"

"The confession of a soul is the most terrible beauty"

"Time heals nothing; it only teaches us to endure"

"In the depths of degradation, a man may yet find his soul"

"The ultimate freedom is the freedom to choose our suffering"

"A man divided against himself cannot stand, yet we are all divided"

"I would drink to the joy of living, even knowing it is fleeting"

"What is shame but the soul recognizing its own truth?"

"The path to redemption is lit by suffering"

"In the eyes of another, we see what we truly are"

"A man may dream of nobility while committing base acts"

"The past is not dead; it lives within us still"

"To forgive is not weakness, but the highest strength"

"The heart knows secrets that reason cannot fathom"

"A moment of understanding can overturn years of delusion"

"I know that I am a slave to my nature, yet I am free"

"The roots of our actions lie deeper than we dare look"

"A man who lies to himself can become cruel"

"In suffering, we find the seeds of our transformation"

"The wound of conscience is deeper than any physical wound"