Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Don't lie; omit, but don't lie.Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
I love to look at children, at their innocent and happy faces, and to think what men, all made in the image of God, can be reduced to!Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
This is the conviction: we all have something to atone for, so much so, that we are even willing to pay a terrible price to have our sins taken away.Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
We've all grown unaccustomed to life, we're all lame, each of us more or less. We've even grown so unaccustomed that at times we feel a sort of loathing for real life, and so we can't help ourselves...Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment