Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."

"What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"