Quotes About Brothers Karamazov

#1. ... and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

Marci Shore

#2. The Brothers Karamazov,

Haruki Murakami

#3. it made me wonder whether the brothers karamazov would have ever come down to us as a classic if its title had been the karamzov brothers.

William Peter Blatty

#4. I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'

Charlie Trotter

#5. Brothers Karamazov

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.

Richard Rohr

#7. The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
The Brothers Karamazov
Mitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. 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.'

Charlie Trotter

#10. The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

Robert Hass

#12. I'm five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.

Jennifer Niven

#13. 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.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. That day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Julie Burchill

#17. Sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.

Kim Kardashian

#19. If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all.

Tom Robbins

#20. We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

Jay Maisel

#21. Materialist deny God because they can't smell a rose with a powerful telescope.

Adriano Bulla

#22. But in those eyes and in the lines of her exquisite lips there was something with which his brother might well be passionately in love, but which perhaps could not be loved for long.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#25. Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.

Marcel Proust

#26. I find it difficult to converse with robots.....Don't be afraid to be an independent thinker.

Just Jewel

#27. There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#29. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

#30. Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#31. If there's no God, all is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too, ... perhaps better than we actually are.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.

George Gordon Byron

#34. 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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#35. a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

Catie Marron

#36. there an all of eternity?" I asked. "Isn't it just eternity? I mean, the word eternity sort of implies an end all to it already. Why muddle things by saying all of eternity when you can just say eternity?" She

Jake Bible

#37. Those innocent eyes slit my soul up like a razor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#38. Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

Wendy Liebman