Crime and Punishment

Book · 6 characters · 607 quotes · 1911

Quotes from Crime and Punishment

S
"We are all broken vessels seeking wholeness."
Sonya Philosophy
P
"Truth is often more terrible than any lie."
Porfiry Petrovich Truth
R
"I understood then that redemption comes through suffering and love."
Raskolnikov Faith
R
"A man may be intelligent and still lack wisdom."
Raskolnikov Wisdom
S
"The poor are always with us, and we must learn to love them."
Sonya
S
"Justice without mercy is cruelty."
Sonya Justice
P
"Fear paralyzes the will and destroys the mind."
Porfiry Petrovich Fear
R
"I felt as though I had become someone else entirely."
Raskolnikov Change
R
"The worst thing one can do is to abandon hope."
Raskolnikov Hope
S
"We are all responsible for everyone and everything."
Sonya Faith
P
"I have discovered that it is not the criminal who is to be pitied, but the victim."
Porfiry Petrovich Justice
S
"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
Sonya Love
S
"The soul is healed by making others happy."
Sonya Kindness
R
"Man is the measure of all things."
Raskolnikov Philosophy
R
"I felt that everything was over and done with for me."
Raskolnikov
R
"Debauchery is not a sin, it is a beautiful thing."
Raskolnikov Philosophy
R
"All suffering is inflicted by man, not by nature."
Raskolnikov Philosophy
D
"The more one loves genuinely, the more one despairs."
Dunya Love
R
"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."
Raskolnikov Kindness
R
"I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her."
Raskolnikov Power
R
"I have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the most sacred things."
Raskolnikov Justice
R
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults and fewer of your virtues."
Raskolnikov Relationships
R
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Raskolnikov Relationships
R
"I am not mad; I am perfectly sane. It is society that is mad."
Raskolnikov Philosophy
S
"The meek shall inherit the earth"
Sonya Faith
R
"I cannot live without love"
Raskolnikov Love
R
"The extraordinary man has the right to commit crime"
Raskolnikov Philosophy
S
"Forgiveness is the path to redemption"
Sonya Hope
R
"I wanted to step over all obstacles at once"
Raskolnikov
S
"Conscience is the voice of God within us"
Sonya Faith