can anyone tell me where a specific quote is. it's something like "they don't understand, there is no happiness or unhappiness for us, without this love, there is no life."
thanks for all the help
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can anyone tell me where a specific quote is. it's something like "they don't understand, there is no happiness or unhappiness for us, without this love, there is no life."
thanks for all the help
The text of Anna Karenina is on the site and searchable by word/phrase :)
http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/anna_karenina/
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thanks for the help, but i tried that and it's not coming up with anything. i'm not sure if it's because the copy i read was a different translation than the one on this site or if it's something else. if anybody else knows this quote and can help that'd be great.
thanks for everyone's help
"You must understand," said he, "it's not love. I've been in
love, but it's not that. It's not my feeling, but a sort of
force outside me has taken possession of me. I went away, you
see, because I made up my mind that it could never be, you
understand, as a happiness that does not come on earth; but I've
struggled with myself, I see there's no living without it. And
it must be settled."-Chapter 10
is that it?
ah ok I think I found it :)
Yes, it was the same thing over and over again. Everyone, his
mother, his brother, everyone thought fit to interfere in the
affairs of his heart. This interference aroused in him a feeling
of angry hatred--a feeling he had rarely known before. "What
business is it of theirs? Why does everybody feel called upon to
concern himself about me? And why do they worry me so? Just
because they see that this is something they can't understand.
If it were a common, vulgar, worldly intrigue, they would have
left me alone. They feel that this is something different, that
this is not a mere pastime, that this woman is dearer to me than
life. And this is incomprehensible, and that's why it annoys
them. Whatever our destiny is or may be, we have made it
ourselves, and we do not complain of it," he said, in the word
_we_ linking himself with Anna. "No, they must needs teach us
how to live. They haven't an idea of what happiness is; they
don't know that without our love, for us there is neither
happiness nor unhappiness--no life at all," he thought.
Chapter 21
thanks for trying, but that's not the one i'm looking for. the quote i'm looking for is said by vronsky to anna in petersburg.
yeah, that's it. thank you. it is translated differently than in the copy i read, which i guess is why i couldn't find it. thanks for your help.