CRIME AND PUNISHMENT BOOK QUOTES

“But these dreams were not hideous and repulsive; on the contrary, they were strangely calm and beautiful” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Man grows accustomed to everything, the scoundrel!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Life is in ourselves and not in the external” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Ideas, like living organisms, have their own laws of growth and decay.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go straight, one must walk through crooked paths.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What’s more, Lucifer, too, would have been one of us.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Despair is the limit of infinite torment.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“But even then I realised that it was a terrible mistake to think that I was lying because I was conscious of speaking at random, just because I was in a fever of excitement” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“They talk about love, but they do little of it.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“All of a sudden he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that the door was slowly opening… and she’d come in, the shy, timid, stereotyped figure of a poor student’s daughter, in shabby clothes, with a hopeless, pathetic little bundle of scraps of paper in her thin hands.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment ALONE BEST QUOTES

“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I used to think, before I became a terribly wicked person, that any man, no matter how vicious or degraded, had in him something left to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It is the earth’s gravity alone which draws one to the earth.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“She was afraid of nobody but the young man who had sent her that letter and who was perhaps already desperately waiting for her in the street.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It’s just that I can’t be persuaded that all men are born to be hanged.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Life may be miserable because it is meaningless if we do not know that the meaning of life is love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you kill one man, you are a murderer. If you kill millions, you are a conqueror.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I wanted to find out for myself whether there was anyone in the world at least free from my inner turmoil.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I don’t believe in a law of nature. …Man has a right to scientific investigation, and logically and inevitably, as a result, the duty to shape society.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment