Raskolnikov

"I was overcome by indescribable anguish."

"Conscience is suffering."

"What is to be done now?"

"I am responsible for myself."

"Contempt is a terrible thing."

"I cannot live without her."

"I cannot accept a world without justice."

"I must confess everything."

"There is no absolute morality."

"The mind is a prison of its own making."

"I felt as though I had died and been reborn."

"I have become a slave to my own thoughts."

"The power of confession is transformative."

"The chains of guilt are heavier than any prison."

"Mankind cannot live without meaning."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her."

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

"What is to be done now?"

"I confess my weakness—I believe in nothing."

"What is abnormal? Everything that is unusual, that does not conform to the average."

"The most terrible agonies may pass in a smile."

"A man may commit a murder and still be virtuous."

"The law of nature allows the strong to devour the weak."

"There is a peculiar pleasure in the contemplation of one's own degradation."

"What separates man from beast is the capacity for guilt."

"I am not mad; I am perfectly sane. It is society that is mad."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"I wanted to step over, and I did step over... I killed an old woman."