Best quotes from The Devils

It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated during the first half.

God is the pain of the fear of death.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?.

Do you believe in a future everlasting life?<br/> No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense. Or else a fool.

People who can speak well, speak briefly.

So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?' 'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but there's pain in the fear of a stone.

And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting it. And now, too, every day I want it not to be words.