Crime and Punishment

"Only through suffering comes redemption."

"I feel that something will break within me very soon."

"Despair is the privilege of those who have exhausted all other emotions."

"If one could know the future, who would want to live?"

"We must all bear our crosses."

"Madness is to talk of reason to unreason."

"The soul is healed by making others happy."

"I have come to see that everything is permitted."

"I recognize that society is organized on wrong principles."

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

"I feel something permanent and perhaps terrible in myself."

"I want to live, for I am still alive, am I not?"

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

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

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

"In loving others, we finally learn to love ourselves."

"We cannot escape ourselves, no matter how far we run."

"A rational mind without a compassionate heart is monstrous."

"God's justice is often hidden from our understanding."

"The deed was the easy part; living with it was impossible."

"I learned that true strength lies in accepting our limitations."

"The path to salvation is paved with confession and repentance."

"Every evil act carries within it the seed of its own punishment."

"The ordinary person desires peace, but the extraordinary desires dominion."

"Forgiveness is the greatest strength a human can possess."

"I could not live with myself knowing what I had done."

"Love is the only law that transcends human reason."

"We punish ourselves far more severely than any judge."

"A moment of clarity can change a lifetime of delusion."

"I realized that conscience is the voice of God within us."