{"author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky","total_quotes":446,"quotes":[{"text":"Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. 'I am alone and they are everyone,' I thought–and pondered.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["alone"],"id":623,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["judgement"],"id":3107,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: ‘O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before You today.’ For every hour, every second, thousands of men leave this world and their souls appear before the Lord, and no one knows how many of them leave this earth in isolation, sadness, and anguish, with no one to take pity on them or even care whether they live or die. And so your prayer for such a man will rise to the Lord from the other end of the earth, although he may never have heard of you or you of him. But his soul, as it stands trembling before the Lord, will be cheered and gladdened to learn that there is someone on earth who loves him. And the Lord’s mercy will be even greater to both of you, for, however great your pity for the man, God’s pity will be much greater, for He is infinitely more merciful and more loving than you are.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["prayer"],"id":6008,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["egoism","suffering"],"id":6743,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"- in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to 'save' him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["love-hurts","pity","self-sacrifice"],"id":13027,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: 'Mystery!","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["grand-inquisitor","morality-without-religion","mystery","science"],"id":13413,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["destruction"],"id":13906,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["blessings","happiness","joy"],"id":14311,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she tortures me, tortures me with her love. The past was nothing! In the past it was only that infernal body of hers that tortured me, but now I've taken all her soul into my soul and through her I've become a man. Will they marry us? If they don't I will die of jealousy. I imagine something every day...","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["body","imagination","love","soul"],"id":15573,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["alcohol"],"id":15614,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":446,"pages":45,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}