33 quotes
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Treasure this ecstasy, however absurd people may think it.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
I most respectfully return him the ticket.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
For the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.'
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Meanwhile, in their solitude, they keep the image of Christ fair and undefiled, in the purity of God's truth, from the times of the Fathers of old, the Apostles and the martyrs. And when the time comes they will show it to the tottering creeds of the world.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)