13 quotes
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
Anna Karenina (1875)
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
Anna Karenina (1875)
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina (1875)
Soon he [Vronsky] felt rising in his soul a desire for desires — boredom.
Anna Karenina (1877)
He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.
Anna Karenina (1875)
One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait [The establishing of a fact.]
Anna Karenina (1875)
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 looking.
Anna Karenina (1875)
To all these questions there were answers admirably stated, and answers admitting no shade of doubt, since they were not a product of human thought, always liable to error, but were all the product of official activity.
Anna Karenina (1875)
Stephan Arkadievich chose neither his attitudes nor his opinions, no, the attitudes and opinions came to him on their own, just as he chose neither the style of his hat nor of his coats but got what people were wearing.
Anna Karenina (1875)
Vengeance is mine; I will repay.
Anna Karenina (1875)
Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Anna Karenina (1875)
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Anna Karenina (1877)
My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'
Anna Karenina (1875)