Brothers Karamazov Quotations

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

Love life more than the meaning of it?

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

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

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

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.