Anna Karenina Quotes

“the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:work

“The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:hope suffering

“He was always in a hurry to speak, and seemed always to put his whole soul into what he was saying.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:speech soul

“Anything's better than lying and deceit.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:honesty

“She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:talking sorrow

“The chief thing I shouldn't like would be for people to imagine I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:living hurting

“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:satisfaction

“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

topic:relationship difference

“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.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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