Grigory Rasputin Quotes
11 quotes from Grigory Rasputin — Russian mystic who gained enormous influence over the Russian royal family by claiming to heal the hemophiliac heir..
“When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.”
“Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael, for every one of you that falls, two shall arise.”
“God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.”
“Don't let the doctors bother him too much; let him rest.”
“We have made the acquaintance of a man of God named Grigorii from the government of Tobolsk.”
“Reptile.”
“It became a dusk enveloping all our world, eclipsing the sun. How could so pitiful a wretch throw so vast a shadow? It was inexplicable, maddening, almost incredible.”
“God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die.”
“Before all Russia, I am filled with shame that the hands of my relatives are stained with the blood of a simple peasant.”
“The deeper I went into my research, the more convinced I became that one of the most important facts about Rasputin, the thing that made him such an extraordinary and powerful figure, was less what he was doing and more what everyone thought he was doing.”
“This man was unique, one of a kind, like a character out of a novel; he lived in legend, he died in legend, and his memory is cloaked in legend. A semi-literate peasant and a counsellor to the Tsar, a hardened sinner and a man of prayer, a shape-shifter with the name of God on his lips.”
