Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"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 not unhappy."

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

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}"

"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 are hearts."

"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 either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I."

"And where love ends, hate begins"

"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 are hearts."

"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."

"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."

"Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!"

"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."

"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 either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I."

"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."

"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 are hearts."

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

"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."

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools."