Crime and Punishment Quotes

“He knew one thing only: 'All this has to end today, in one go, right now.' He wouldn't go home otherwise, because he didn't want to live like this. End how? By what means? He had no idea, no wish even to think about it. He chased away thought: thought tormented him. He merely felt and knew that everything had to change, one way or another. 'Any way will do,' he kept repeating, with desperate, immovable confidence and resolve.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What would I be without God?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment