Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Hell is the inability to love.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .