The Brothers Karamazov

"Active love is harsh and dreadful when compared with love in dreams"

"I can forgive everything but ingratitude"

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

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

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

"The heart knows truths that the mind will never grasp"

"A child's tears cry out against the injustice of existence"

"Fear of death is fear of life itself"

"The heart has its own logic that reason cannot comprehend"

"I have never been able to understand how one can love one's neighbors"

"I cannot accept a harmony that requires the tears of even one tortured child"

"Men love their phantasies more than they love truth"

"I wish to be forgiven, but I do not know how to forgive myself"

"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness"

"Without God and immortality of the soul, morality becomes meaningless"

"I am tormented by eternal questions"

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

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

"If God does not exist, everything is permitted"

"The greatest wisdom is knowing oneself"

"The conscience is the voice of God within us"

"Courage is acting rightly despite fear"

"Truth often hurts those who speak it"

"Justice without mercy is cruelty"

"Dreams reveal the secret desires of the soul"

"The search for truth is humanity's noblest quest"

"True strength lies in gentleness"

"The heart has its own wisdom"

"Kindness is the only universal language"

"The problem of evil cannot be solved by reason alone"