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“I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and has seen nothing as yet of life or of the world. Family circumstances of various kinds brought them together, and he grew to love her as a daughter, and had no fear that his love would change its nature. But he forgot that B was so young, that life was still a May-game to her and that it was easy to fall in love with her in a different way, and that this would amuse her. He made a mistake and was suddenly aware of another feeling, as heavy as remorse, making its way into his heart, and he was afraid. He was afraid that their old friendly relations would be destroyed, and he made up his mind to go away before that happened.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague and unsatisfied longing.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“I valued his love; I felt that he thought me better than all other young women in the world, and I could not help wishing him to go on being deceived about me. Without wishing to deceive him, I did deceive him, and I became better myself while deceiving him.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

“All that world, that sky, that garden, that air, were not the same as I had known.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие