Anna Karenina

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Life with another person is either marriage or a scandal."

"The deeper she sank the more she loved him."

"What a difference it makes to have someone who loves you nearby."

"Forgiveness is the highest form of love."

"The whole of life is but keeping away from it."

"Freethinkers are generally those whose reason has not been much exercised."

"There is one universal law: that life comes from life."

"Man can live without science, but man cannot live without faith."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Conscience is the only thing that cannot be mocked."

"To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for the very lowest demands of life."

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

"Passion and love are my life."

"When you loved someone, you were capable of learning everything about them."

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

"Life is not a matter of finding yourself. Life is a matter of creating yourself."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."

"There is something in the human heart which this prosperity cannot satisfy."

"The presence of the problem does not necessarily mean the absence of the solution."

"One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad."

"Family life is more interesting than any novel."

"Everything that is thought to be impossible is only impossible until somebody does it."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"The vast majority of people never use their real power."

"If there is a god, if there is meaning to our lives, then that meaning must be in love."

"I cannot be other than what I am."

"Vengeance is mine; I will repay."

"The highest wisdom is to understand that life is fundamentally tragic."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived—in which case you fail by default."