Top 99 Quotes From "Crime And Punishment"

May 2, 2022 admin 0 Comments

Are you a fan of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”? If so, you’ll love these top 99 quotes from the novel:

Part 1

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars.”

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
“All men are divided into two classes: those who have and those who have not.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
“We are all in debt to each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos of our lives.”

“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
“It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful things.”
“The darker the passions, the more likely they are to be expressed.”
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.”
“Painful trials are not the worst thing; the worst thing is to be able to bear nothing.”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”
“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant!”
“We are all responsible for everyone else—but I am more responsible than all the others.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything.”

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
“It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.”
“The most terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.”
“To be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.”
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

“I may be a scoundrel, but at least I’m a man, not a cockroach.”
“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”
“Life is pain, life is guilt, life is despair, and it all must end in death!”
“The man who has a conscience suffers while acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”

“I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind, the less I love people as individuals.”
“The more a man has, the more he wants.”
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
“Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.”
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality.”

“It is not what you say, but how you say it.”
“The most difficult thing but an essential one is to love life, to love it even while one suffers, because life is all. Life is God, and to love life means to love God.”
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.”
“You don’t have to be a philosopher to find a worm in an apple.”
“The darker the passions, the more likely they are to be expressed.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
“Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything.”
“To be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.”
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
“It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful things.”
“We are all in debt to each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos of our lives.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars.”
“The most terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“We are all responsible for everyone else—but I am more responsible than all the others.”

“All men are divided into two classes: those who have and those who have not.”
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
“Painful trials are not the worst thing; the worst thing is to be able to bear nothing.”
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

“The more a man has, the more he wants.”
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”
“Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.”
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality.”
“You don’t have to be a philosopher to find a worm in an apple.”

“I may be a scoundrel, but at least I’m a man, not a cockroach.”
“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”
“Life is pain, life is guilt, life is despair, and it all must end in death!”
“The man who has a conscience suffers while acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”

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