Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” Quotes (63 Quotes)
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- Don't be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Kto sumienie posiada, niech cierpi, skoro zda? sobie sprawe; z pomy?ki. Be;dzie mu to kara; - obok katorgi.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of reality. Most monstrous pictures are put together but all the circumstances are so subtly interwoven the details so artistically harmonious in every minute respect as to defy human imitation. Such morbid dreams are always recollected for very long and produce strong impressions on the disordered and already excited organs of the dreamer.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that comprise it, the origin of those actions, is diffuse and is associated with various morbid sensations. Rather like a dream.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- When reason fails, the devil helps!
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid-and I know they are-yet I won't be wiser?
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
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