Jay

“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

“Trusting no men as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“and I kept imagining someone like you, kind, honest, good, and as silly as you are, who would suddenly come up and say, 'You're not guilty, Natasya Filippovna, and I adore you!' And I sometimes dreamed so much that I'd go out of my mind... And then this one would come: he'd stay for two months a year, dishonor me, offend me, inflame me, debauch me, leave me - a thousand times I wanted to drown myself in the pond, but I was base, I had no courage”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“And could you shoot yourself?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment