But people will laugh at all sorts of things.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
That’s just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating – and then he eats you up.
Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
One can’t understand everything at once, we can’t begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan’t understand them thoroughly.
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
Catch several hares and you won’t catch one.
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Alyosha’s heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people’s sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.