Anna Karenina Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image ““I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.”” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anna Karenina
“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like you and… — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“By the time I had gotten off the phone, I knew that I was going after Anna. My gut told me that she wasn't… — Kendare Blake Copy Share Image
“I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.” — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
“Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“Her words made her pause. She couldn't have anything that was truly worthwhile without fighting for it-her farm, her family, and perhaps even love… — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“didn’t take long after the divorce for Anna to notice just how bad things had gotten and that they were probably going to get… — Claire Charlins Copy Share Image
“... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world. No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside… — Åsa Larsson Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s lives. She… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish -… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to remember their names,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for Bruno, with… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image