When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force of life pushing up from inside. This was the way Natasha's wound healed. She thought her life was over. But suddenly her love for her mother showed her that the essence of life - love - was still alive in her. Love awoke, and life awoke.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

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.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.