The Brothers Karamazov

"Every person is responsible for everyone and everything"

"To love life more than the meaning of life—that is the human tragedy"

"The impossible is possible if we but believe it"

"I am weak before beauty—it is my ruin"

"A man may be noble and beautiful, yet be utterly wrecked"

"Money is the measure of all things in our world, yet it measures nothing truly"

"There are moments when eternal questions seize the heart"

"I thirst for active love, not love in dreams"

"The heart desires what the mind cannot comprehend"

"I am tortured by my passions, but I would not trade them away"

"A man may know that he is a scoundrel, and yet be unable to help it"

"The truth is buried somewhere in the depths of our hearts"

"Every person secretly hopes that someone loves them completely, as they are"

"Without struggle, there is no progress"

"I cannot renounce my right to suffer"

"There is something in the Russian soul that calls out for suffering"

"Measure me by my passions, not by my failures"

"I am a sensualist, but I am no coward"

"The suffering of children cries out to heaven"

"My friend, I love humanity, but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"I believe in God, though I do not believe in His works"

"The soul is healed by a thousand beautiful things"

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

"Can you really love humanity in general? I find I can love only particular people"

"I want to embrace life, to taste everything"

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for"

"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"

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

"I could not bear the sufferings of children"

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