We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

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

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.