Quotes About Raskolnikov

#1. A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.

Joel Kinnaman

#2. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Raskolnikov

Anton Chekhov

#3. A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

Boris Pasternak

#4. Raskolnikov sat in silence, listening with disgust.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. If you can show a person logical proof that essentianlly he's got nothing to cry about, he'll stop crying. That seems clear. Don't you think he'd stop crying?'
"That would make life too easy," Raskolnikov replied.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Pyotr Petrovitch stole a glance at Raskolnikov. Their eyes met, and the fire in Raskolnikov's seemed ready to reduce him to ashes

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

Dave Barry

#9. Raskolnikov once said: When reason fails, the devil helps!

Markus Zusak

#10. He found all the people he met repulsive - their faces, their manner of walking, their movements were repulsive to him. He reflected that if anyone had said anything to him he would quite simply have spat at that person, or bitten him ... - Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Raskolnikov at that moment felt and knew once for all that Sonia was with him for ever and would follow him to the ends of the earth, wherever fate might take him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

Jennifer O'Neill

#13. People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly ...

Saket Assertive

#15. His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his cowardice.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

John Darnielle

#18. Life [had] replaced logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. Since there is no way to Live after you die, why not Live Now!-RVM

R.v.m.

#20. As they emerged into the sunlight, Guinevere's breath caught in her throat. There were more than a thousand men gathered on the green in front of her. "Mother of God," the abbeys said, "there's an army at my door.

S. Alexander O'Keefe

#21. Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. Everything is dependent upon energy. Energy is attention. Attention is awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Sometimes it is easier not to know and live with hope than it is to know and live with the truth.

Danny Scheinmann