Love one another, Fathers, said Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could remember afterwards. Love God’s people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we are no holier than t...
Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better. They respect one another more, and much is built on respect. And if once there has...
Look, gentlemen, look at how our young men are shooting themselves—oh, without the least Hamletian question of ‘what lies beyond,
Listen, then: we are not with you, but with him, that is our secret! For a long time now - eight centuries already - we have not been with you, but with him. Exactly eight centuries ago we took from h...
It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.
It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a m...
It does happen sometimes that a person commits a villainy and praises himself for it, elevating his villainy to the level of a principle, and claiming that and the light of civilization are precisely...
Is this what is called remorse of conscience or repentance? I do not know, and I cannot tell to this day. Perhaps this remembrance even now contains something pleasurable for my passions. No--what is...
Is it not I myself who am to blame, instead of them?
In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterm...
If you can show a person logical proof that essentianlly he's got nothing to cry about, he'll stop crying. That seems clear. Don't you think he'd stop crying?'That would make life too easy, Raskolniko...
If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.
I've tested my strength everywhere. You advised me to do that, in order to know myself. This testing for myself, and for show, proved it to be boundless, as before all my life. In front of your very e...
I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that li...
I think everyone should love life above everything in the world.Love life more than the meaning of it?Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only...
I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished myself and shot myself through the heart. But never, never have I ceased to lo...
I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves in spring. I love the blue sky. I love some...
I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring.