Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.