Raskolnikov Sonia Quotes & Sayings

Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt

God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old ... the vast majority of whom don't have a clue why they are on this planet. — Louie Giglio

Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use? — Chad Harbach

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses. — George Bernard Shaw

When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she had steeled herself. The last time she saw him she was standing on a platform in the tunnelbana at Gamla Stan and he was sitting in the train on his way downtown. She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck you. — Stieg Larsson

Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy. — Robert David Steele

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer. — Yves Rossy

My problems were not what ended Creed. — Scott Stapp

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. — Larry Wall

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

It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. — Kahlil Gibran

But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went then? I will tell you some day how I went! Did I murder the old woman? I murdered myself, not her! I crushed myself once for all, for ever. ... But it was the devil that killed that old woman, not I. Enough, enough, Sonia, enough! Let me be! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it. — John Lennon

Raskolnikov saw in part why Sonia could not bring herself to read to him and the more he saw this, the more roughly
and irritably he insisted on her doing so. He understood only too well how painful it was for her to betray and unveil all
that was her own. He understood that these feelings really were her secret treasure, which she had kept perhaps for
years, perhaps from childhood, while she lived with an unhappy father and distracted step mother crazed by grief, in the midst of starving children and unseemly abuse and reproaches. But at the same time he knew now and knew for
certain that, although it filled her with dread and suffering, yet she had a tormenting desire to read and to read to him that he might hear it, and to read now whatever might come of it! ... He read this in her eyes, he could see it in her intense emotion. She mastered herself, controlled the spasm in her throat and went on reading the eleventh chapter of St.
John. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The next time the world tells you "Stop", "Don't", or "You can't do this", the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, "No, I want to do this. — Joud Tabaza

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life. — William Cranch Bond