Crime and Punishment quotes are taken from an iconic novel of world literature and the second full length novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written after his exile in Siberia.
Telling the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg, who feels that he has the intelligence to commit the perfect crime, by killing a Pawnbroker.
But after the crime Raskolnikov experiences, regret and guilt along with finding about several mistakes he made during the crime.
Raskolnikov then goes through the real world punishments for the crime after those that are internal.
Crime and Punishment Quotes
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, first line
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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
But that is the beginning of a new story – the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, last line
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