“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."Vronsky”

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

“I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it.-Vronsky”

“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.”

“Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.”

“Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!”

“I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”