Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Quotes

• “Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live ...”
• “We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directi...”
• “If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outsi...”
• “They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for u...”
• “Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able ...”
• “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina...”
• “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would ...”
• “There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives i...”
• “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there ...”
• “I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's n...”
• “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without look...”
• “Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”
• “And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
• “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
• “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
• “To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
• “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
• “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
• “He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
• “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
• “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
• “And where love ends, hate begins”
• “Love those you hate you.”