Quotes about sin

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPart 5, chapter 4Sonia Marmeladova

I didn't kill a human being, I killed a principle!

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPart 3, chapter 6Rodion Raskolnikov, to himself

Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled, and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, 'I am a murderer!'

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPart 5, chapter 4Sonia Marmeladova

Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyLettersLetter to his brother Mikhail, 22 December 1849Fyodor Dostoevsky, aged twenty-eight

We are each responsible to all for all.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPart 2, Book 6, chapter 2, section (c) ("Recollections of Father Zossima's Youth before he became a Monk. The Duel")Markel, Zosima's elder brother, as remembered by Father Zosima