Brothers Karamazov Quotes

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Suffering

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Above all, don't lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.96, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Spiritual, Animal

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.484, First Avenue Editions

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• This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sorrow, Lasts, Messages

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.30, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Ideas, Savages

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.556, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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• The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Envy

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 2151), 1874.

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• Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Relationship, Dream, Action

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880.

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• Above all, do not lie to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Occupy Yourself

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.44, Macmillan

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• 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. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Love You, Love Is

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Book II, ch. 3, 1879 - 1880.

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• I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sun, Knows, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beauty, Heart, Fighting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.318, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Ridiculous, Miserable

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Lying, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.582, e-artnow

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• It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grief, Joy, Bereavement

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.442, First Avenue Editions

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Being In Love, Inability To Love

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• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Heart, Angel

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Awful, Sides

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Love life more than the meaning of it?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Life

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.351, First Avenue Editions

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• Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Forgiving, World, Whole

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.373, First Avenue Editions

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• The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Ardent

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.128, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Deep Thought

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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