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

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

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. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love. β€” J. D. Salinger

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

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. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there were no God, he would have to be invented. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, do not lie to yourself. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov. β€” Charlie Trotter

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right! β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love life more than the meaning of it? β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky β€” that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. β€” Kurt Vonnegut

When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological. β€” Bruce Springsteen

I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians. β€” Gordon T. Smith

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school. β€” Robert Hass

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others. β€” Fyodor Dostoevsky

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