Anna Karenina Quotes

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 like them to be.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven