“And she torments me, torments me with love. It is not like before! Before she merely tormented me with her infernal curves, but now I have accepted the whole of her soul into my own and through her have myself become a human being! Brothers Karamazov, Book XI, Ch 5” LoveSoulDesireWoman Author:Dostoyevsky
“And I saw myselt just as I was now fifteen years hence, only grown older, is the same room, living the same sort of solitary life, with the same Matryona, who had not grown a bit wiser in all those years.” SadnessLeaveLonliness Book:White Nights Source: White Nights
“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.” GodHumanityTheologyInterpretation Book:The Idiot Source: The Idiot
“...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions?” ReligionChristianityProfoundSublimeMeans Justifying The Ends Author:Dostoyevsky
“I love you so, because you haven't fallen in love with me. Another man in your place would, I'm sure, have begun to pester me, to worry me. He would have been sighing, he would have looked so pathetic, but you're so sweet!” Falling In LoveFriend Zoned Book:White Nights Source: White Nights
“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.” Brothers Karamazov Author:Dostoyevsky