The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

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

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.