Oh, Karamazov, I’m profoundly unhappy. Sometimes I imagine God knows what, that everyone is laughing at me, the whole world, and then I … then I’m quite ready to destroy the whole order of things.” “And you torment the people around you,” Alyosha smiled. “And I torment the people around me, especially my mother. Tell me, Karamazov, am I very ridiculous now?”
