Brothers karamazov Quote by David Dellinger

“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).”

— Peter Kreeft

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held…

— John Fante

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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…

— Gordon T. Smith

“It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The touch of your flesh is tough to resist Planets collide, collide at the smack of your kiss But you can kiss your brother…

— The Waterboys

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the…

— Lev Shestov

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches; look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!”

— John Tagliabue