BEST QUOTES FROM CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it… one must have the courage to dare.”

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

“Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making.”

“How terrible it was to know oneself in the power of one’s own basest desires!”

“I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.”

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.” LIKE DAUGHTER LIKE MOTHER QUOTES

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”

“A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

“Peculiar people do not exist. If they do exist, they are sick.”

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

“I am a dreamer; I am not a villain. The dreamer is often alone, while the villain is surrounded with crowds of sympathizers.”

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

“Human beings can be degraded and debased, but no one can be so degraded that he cannot emerge from it.”

“There are no obstacles; there are only people who give up.”