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Quotes About Relationships

Toate familiile fericite se aseam?n? între ele. Fiecare familie nefericit? este nefericit? în felul ei.
~ Leo Tolstoy
They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over. . .
~ Leo Tolstoy
Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but Natasha had no interest in any such questions. Questions like these, then as now, existed exclusively for people who see marriage only in terms of satisfaction given and received by the married couple, though this is only one principle of married life rather than its overall meaning, which lies in the family.
~ Leo Tolstoy
and if one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered what happened outside us. Only much later I began to have some slight understanding of his cares and to be interested in them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What you spoke of just now was a mistake, not love
~ Leo Tolstoy
Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote from him she had become now! "It was bound to be so," he said, not looking at her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'll come some day," he said. "But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon. Things are in a bad way with me, very bad. And it's all through women. Tell me frankly now," he pursued, picking up a cigar and keeping one hand on his glass; "give me your advice.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout for it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Postovanje je izmisljeno da se sakrije praznina gde bi trebalo da bude ljubav. A ako me vise ne volis, onda je bolje i postenije da mi to kazes.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He did not know that Levin was feeling as though he had grown wings. Levin knew she was listening to his words and that she was glad to listen to him. And this was the only thing that interested him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and where the shoe pinched each one of them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am too proud to ever allow myself to care for a man who does not love me
~ Leo Tolstoy
Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one's wife, and one ought to have confidence in one's wife
~ Leo Tolstoy
Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything
~ Leo Tolstoy
Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did before.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Todas las familias felices se parecen entre sí; pero cada familia desgraciada tiene un motivo especial para sentirse así.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Remember that there is only one important time and is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future. The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices," Anna began suddenly, "but I hate him for his virtues. I can't live with him. Do you understand?
~ Leo Tolstoy