The Brothers Karamazov Quotes

#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. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. Brothers Karamazov

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#15. 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

#16. You know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait that sounds fucked up.

John Green

#17. The ignorant teen lived her last days stuck in the shadows of love, yet surrounded by the allure of death.

Nomar Knight

#18. In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

Frederick Lenz

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#21. As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

Marilyn Ferguson

#22. I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls.

Bernie Sanders

#23. For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#24. Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

Yash Chopra

#25. Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Bill Gates

#26. 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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. 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

#32. For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Thornton Wilder

#33. I think I can live without you," he said, like it was something he'd spent twenty-seven hours thinking about, "but it won't be any kind of life.

Rainbow Rowell

#34. Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

Michel Foucault

#35. 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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky