The Brothers Karamazov Quotes

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:wordssorrow

“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:stupidityhonestyintelligence

“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand, it’s the world created by Him I don’t and cannot accept.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:world

“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:educationmeaningfeelings

“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:educationmemory

“Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:lonelinessfaith

“every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wishes to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself; but meantime all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:loneliness

“People talk sometimes of 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.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:mancruelty

“I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:man

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:humanitysufferingforgiveness