Anna Karenina

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"I feel lost and bewildered, as though I don't know where I am or what I ought to do."

"If I cannot be with him, then I wish to be left alone."

"Life is only bearable when the mind and body are in harmony with one another and with the world."

"It is impossible to live without loving."

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."

"I want to love and be loved, and anything less than that is death to me."

"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver."

"There is something else I can still do."

"He felt that he was happy and unhappy at the same time."

"The essence of all art is to exclude."

"Work is no less necessary to man than eating and sleeping."

"I have suffered and I have wept and I have only one prayer now: to be left alone."

"What a strange and terrible thing is life!"

"The highest goodness is not found in avoiding sin, but in the perfection of our virtues."

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

"I do not admit that I am wrong; I only admit that I cannot explain myself."

"The real reason for marrying is that one wishes to give oneself to another."

"Every man has his past shut up in him like the Bluebeard's chamber."

"No one thing is necessary, and yet each thing is necessary."

"I would sacrifice anything—my life, my honor, my conscience."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

"Nothing is so necessary as to know oneself."

"Conscious human beings cannot relinquish their consciousness."

"I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of living."

"The man could not even tell her what it was that had made him cross; all he knew was that something had happened to disturb his mood."

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it at once."

"To advance in life you must give the impression of success."