Anna Karenina

"One can love a person dear to one without ceasing to love God."

"The greater the state of disorder in the family, the more the need for order, for love."

"I have everything—wealth, position, beauty—and yet I am miserable."

"Freedom is only granted when you cease to ask for it."

"Time is the most precious thing we have; we cannot make more of it."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"What constitutes a happy life? Is it wealth, fame, or righteousness? It must be some harmony of all three."

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"We are forced to make choices, and each choice defines our character."

"The task of an artist is not to resolve the question but to put it correctly."

"There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is the acknowledgment of the rights of all mankind."

"Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the question of what we shall do with it."

"I love my children, yet I deceive myself about them daily."

"One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love."

"The degree of freedom from fear and pain that we find will be in exact proportion to the degree in which we cultivate faith."

"It is a characteristic of the Russian spirit to question everything."

"We change and are always changing, and to accept this is to find peace."

"Passion is the element in which we live; without it, what is life?"

"He was happy and unhappy in one and the same moment."

"The beginning of all wisdom is the recognition of one's ignorance."

"When one is in love, one should be prepared for anything."

"Vengeance is mine; I will repay."

"I cannot be other than what I am."

"Passion and love are my life."

"I cannot conceive of any situation more painful than standing alone against the whole world."

"The heart wants what it wants."

"I have long ceased to belong to myself."

"Love without return is poisonous."

"The heart wants what it wants."

"Hope is the cruelest of all emotions."