Levin

Character in Anna Karenina From: Anna Karenina

Landowner and philosopher seeking meaning through work and family

140 quotes

"Wisdom comes from suffering and reflection."
Wisdom
"Motivation comes from purpose, not desire."
Motivation
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
Love
"What have I done? What is to be done with my life?"
Life
"I want to know life as it really is."
Knowledge
"The only absolute knowledge attainable by us is that life is meaningless."
Philosophy
"What is past is past. I must think only of what is now."
Time
"The more I live, the more I want to know."
Education
"I have decided to throw off the old self completely."
Change
"The meaning of life lies not in any form of power."
"He felt that he was not himself, but some other man."
Change
"Life is everything. Life is God."
Philosophy
"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."
Wisdom
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
Philosophy
"Nothing is so important as not to be able to be mistaken about it."
Knowledge
"Love is life."
Love
"Reason has been given to man to distinguish good from evil."
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Time
"To love someone means to accept them as they are."
Love
"God is everywhere but most visibly in the fields."
Nature
"The sweetness of life lies in the ordinary."
Happiness
"Nature knows no indecencies."
Nature
"We live in succession; in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."
Philosophy
"To live as if nothing matters is the greatest insult to life."
"He felt that he was not himself, but some other person."
"There is something new in what we are doing, but also something eternal."
Philosophy
"Work is not a burden but a salvation."
Work
"Marriage is not about happiness, but about meaning."
Relationships
"Nature is the only honest mirror we have."
Nature
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
Hope