Raskolnikov's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening.

Nick Hornby

#4. You should really be more careful who you let put their hands on you. A silky male voice hummed as hot, minty breath wafted around her ear and danced slowly across her nose. Sera inhaled deeply, her skin prickled with goose bumps.

Flora Roberts

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

Janis Joplin

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. 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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. You don't get to pick where you're from, but you always have control of where you're going.

Chris Colfer

#12. 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

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

Markus Zusak

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. 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

#16. Life [had] replaced logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. They were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's a Sagittarius thing, you know. We just move on and on, like tumbleweeds.

Roxanne St. Claire

#20. Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone.

Demi Lovato

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. If we indeed possess light we shall never be afraid to go and face darkness anywhere, any-time.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

Shunryu Suzuki

#25. I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?

Ella Wheeler Wilcox