Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
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.