The Brothers Karamazov Quotes

“Love life . . . regardless of logic, and it’s only then one will understand the meaning of it.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:lifemeaning

“For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:happiness

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. 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, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:truthrespect

“Everything passes, only the truth remains.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:truthtime

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:freedompain

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:self

“And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:self

“Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:Godbeliefsin

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

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:God

“God sets us nothing but riddles.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:Godmystery