Best 20 quotes in «brothers karamazov quotes» category

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

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 miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

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.

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

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.

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

Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

But in those eyes and in the lines of her exquisite lips there was something with which his brother might well be passionately in love, but which perhaps could not be loved for long.

For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankind and every individual man.

If there's no God, all is permitted.

...sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life.

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.

Those innocent eyes slit my soul up like a razor

So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy. They suffer, of course… but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.