My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.