Anna Karenina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"What a strange and terrible thing is life!"

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

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

"The essence of all art is to exclude."

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

"There is something else I can still do."

"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."

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

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

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

"It is impossible to live without loving."

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

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

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

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