“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?”

“But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?”

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”

“I must ask what it is you want of me?""What can I want? All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing," she said, understanding all he had not uttered. "But that I don't want; that's secondary. I want love, and there is none. So then all is over.”

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

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.”