Raskolnikov

Character in Crime and Punishment From: Crime and Punishment

Protagonist; impoverished student and philosopher struggling with guilt

364 quotes

"What is to be done?"
Philosophy
"I wanted to transgress and I transgressed."
Justice
"I cannot endure this suffering any longer."
Courage
"Money is the root of all evil."
Money
"I have become a murderer of my own soul."
Death
"The innocent suffer most."
Justice
"I am not afraid of madness, only of truth."
Truth
"I have created my own hell."
Justice
"I understand nothing anymore."
Truth
"Doubt is the torture of the intelligent."
Philosophy
"The weak are crushed by their own weakness."
Strength
"I am not my crime."
Hope
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man"
Philosophy
"I could not bear to be forgiven"
"The poor are not pitied because they are poor, but because they are superfluous"
Justice
"I felt as though I were responsible for everything"
"Money is the root of all corruption"
Money
"I wanted to step over all obstacles at once"
"The extraordinary man has the right to commit crime"
Philosophy
"I cannot live without love"
Love
"I am not mad; I am perfectly sane. It is society that is mad."
Philosophy
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Relationships
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults and fewer of your virtues."
Relationships
"I have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the most sacred things."
Justice
"I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her."
Power
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before anything else, you may be sure he is a good man."
Kindness
"All suffering is inflicted by man, not by nature."
Philosophy
"Debauchery is not a sin, it is a beautiful thing."
Philosophy
"I felt that everything was over and done with for me."
"Man is the measure of all things."
Philosophy