That I was in love with a man who cared nothing for me, and that I’m dying of love for him?
love
money
death
love
— Anna Karenina
— Middlemarch Three Love Problems.
— The Golden Notebook And yet, when he again made love to her, she again thought: Yes, it’s right, because we’ve been so close together all evening.
— The Golden Notebook He lived in this one room until the widow of an airforce pilot fell in love with him and transferred him to her flat, where he had two rooms.
— Children of Gebelawi Here were the sun and the gebel and the sands, majesty and love and death, and a heart in which love was dawning.
— Anna Karenina Analysing it and comparing it with the former ones, she saw clearly that she would not have been in love with Komisarov if he had not saved the emperor’s life, would not have been in love with Ristich-Kudzhitsky if there had been no Slavic question, but that she loved Karenin for himself, for his lofty, misunderstood soul, the high sound of his voice, so dear to her, with its drawn-out intonations, his weary gaze, his character, and his soft white hands with their swollen veins.
— The Golden Notebook She deludes herself about the nature of the man; for him, another love affair merely.
— Sons and Lovers “My love—my love—Oh my love!” he whispered again and again.
— Lolita ‘Locked up love letters.’
— The Golden Notebook It’s a hard violent sex, like nothing I’ve known before, nothing (*16) to do with the creature who is the woman-in-love.
— Midnight's Children ‘At this rate,’ she thought, ‘there will always be something fresh about him to love; so our marriage just can’t go stale.’
— Anna Karenina I was in love with a man, and I used to sing that piece for him.
— Zorba the Greek Love may be the most intense joy on earth.
— The Golden Notebook It doesn’t mean, not being in love, or not being in sympathy, or not being patient, or being ignorant.
— Zorba the Greek Throwing yourself headlong into your work, into wine, and love, and never being afraid of either God or devil … that’s what youth is!
— Journey to the End of the Night Every evening she came back to her love jazz …
— Metamorphoses His love touched his wife’s heart—
How different from his!—and she recalled
Her own deserted father far away.
— A Sentimental Education He protested: his love was innocent.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Now as widow Wadman did love my uncle Toby——and my uncle Toby did not love widow Wadman, there was nothing for Wadman to do, but to go on and love my uncle Toby——or let it alone.
— The Man Without Qualities In this way the difficulty that at the age of twenty-one one is not supposed to behave like a child is swept away, for this fight continues from birth until old age and is only ended when the world of bourgeois values has been destroyed by the world of love.
— The Golden Notebook They are tied by the closest of all bonds, neurotic pain-giving; the experience of pain dealt and received; pain as an aspect of love; apprehended as a knowledge of what the world is, what growth is.
— Anna Karenina Tell your wife that I love her as before, and if she cannot forgive me my situation, I wish her never to forgive me.
— The Brothers Karamazov The idea of loving one’s neighbor is possible only as an abstraction: it may be conceivable to love one’s fellow man at a distance, but it is almost never possible to love him at close quarters.
— A Sentimental Education Paris had never seemed so lovely and in the future, he could see nothing but an endless procession of years brimming over with love.
— The Golden Notebook I remember lying there and hating him and wondering why the only time I could remember him making love to me with any conviction was when he knew I had just made love to someone else.
— In Search of Lost Time Without quite knowing why, my grandmother found in the steeple of Saint-Hilaire that absence of vulgarity, pretension, and niggardliness which made her love, and deem rich in beneficent influences, nature itself—when the hand of man had not, as did my great-aunt’s gardener, trimmed it—and the works of genius.
— Sons and Lovers Then she could love him.
— The Man Without Qualities If she ever fell in love with him, she would say so at once.
— Great Expectations ‘I’ll tell you,’ said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, ‘what real love is.
— Children of Gebelawi Although I’m a carpenter like father, I love stories.
— In Search of Lost Time I have elected to love none but magnanimous souls, and to live only in an atmosphere of magnanimity.
— The Red and the Black You love me, you are devoted to me, and I have no need of making pretty speeches to please you.
— The Golden Notebook He was collectively in love with them.
money
— Middlemarch I know, by a word you let fall one day, that you don’t like my playing at cards so much for money.
— The Brothers Karamazov After this he led a wild, gay life that cost a good deal of money.
— Midnight's Children He ate two samosas, spending too much money; his mother would be hurt but he’d had a fine time.
— The Brothers Karamazov She could, of course, get quite a lot of money out of your father, but then he wouldn’t marry her and eventually he’s likely to turn tight-fisted and hide his purse away.
— The Decameron Having provided him with some very old clothes and filled his purse with money, she then explained which road he must take on entering the fortress in order to find his servant, and finally she let him out by the postern through which he had entered, imploring him to keep their encounter a secret.
— The Brothers Karamazov To start with, the implication is that, yesterday, Smerdyakov, seized by remorse, returned the money he had stolen and then hanged himself, because, of course, if he had not been remorseful he would not have returned the money.
— Middlemarch He had scorned even to form conjectures about Mr. Vincy’s intentions on money matters, and nothing but extremity could have induced him to apply to his father-in-law, even if he had not been made aware in various indirect ways since his marriage that Mr. Vincy’s own affairs were not flourishing, and that the expectation of help from him would be resented.
— Middlemarch But Fred gives me his honor that he has never borrowed money on the pretence of any understanding about his uncle’s land.
— The Golden Notebook ‘Try again: for one thing, Anna Wulf wrote a novel which was praised by the critics and did so well she is still in fact living on the money it earned.’
— Memoirs of Hadrian The trench-diggers of the legion were aided in their task by native crews; the building of the wall was for many of these mountain dwellers, so newly subdued, the first irrefutable proof of the protective power of Rome; their pay was the first Roman money to pass through their hands.
— Dead Souls But he didn’t love money for its own sake.
— The Brothers Karamazov Probably he killed in an outburst of rage, his passion inflamed at the mere sight of the face of his hated rival, but after killing him—which he may have done with a single powerful blow of the pestle—and after convincing himself that she was not there, he still did not forget to thrust his hand under the pillow, pull out the envelope with the money in it, and tear it open.
— The Brothers Karamazov Those things never required any money at all, anyway.
— Great Expectations We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us.
— Middlemarch I am very uncomfortable with my money, because they tell me I have too little for any great scheme of the sort I like best, and yet I have too much.
— Anna Karenina They ignore it and then use their dishonestly earned money to buy off the former contempt.
— Père Goriot Whether rich or poor, they never have enough money for life’s necessities, though they can always find enough for any whim that strikes them.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Exclusive of the original purchase-money, which was eight hundred pounds—it had cost the family eight hundred pounds more in a law-suit about fifteen years before—besides the Lord knows what trouble and vexation.
— The Brothers Karamazov And what made you decide to take that money yesterday?
— Middlemarch Where then had Peter meant the rest of the money to go—and where the land?
— Père Goriot You’ll flirt with some pretty woman and she’ll fit you money.
— The Brothers Karamazov Because if he hadn’t trampled on the money but had taken it, one hour later, at home, he would have wept bitterly at this new humiliation.
— Journey to the End of the Night There’s only one kind of freedom, only one, to see properly and have your pockets full of money.
— The Brothers Karamazov “Listen, Alexei Karamazov, isn’t there in all this analysis of ours—I mean yours, no, better say ours—isn’t there a certain contempt for that unhappy man, just in the way we allow ourselves to examine his soul as if from somewhere high above, in our deciding that now he can’t fail to accept the money?”
— The Brothers Karamazov And he left almost ten thousand rubles here too, the money the prosecutor, having somehow found out that Ivan had sent somebody to cash it for him, mentioned in his speech.
— Middlemarch It is one of those cases on which a man is condemned on the ground of his character—it is believed that he has committed a crime in some undefined way, because he had the motive for doing it; and Bulstrode’s character has enveloped me, because I took his money.
— Père Goriot “Money is virtue!”
— The Sound of the Mountain Since Shuichi had gone to Kinu for the medical expenses, it did not seem that either he or Kikuko had money for presents.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The young woman call’d the old man and his wife into the room, to shew them the money, in order to gain me credit for a bed and what little necessaries I should want, till I should be in a condition to be got to the hospital——Come then! said she, tying up the little purse—I’ll be your banker—but as that office alone will not keep me employ’d, I’ll be your nurse too.
— Children of Gebelawi I’d shower you with money if only I was able to, Kassem.
— Dead Souls To a question about Chichikov being a counterfeiter, Nozdrev said that he was indeed, and told a story which attested to Chichikov’s extraordinary agility—once when it was discovered that two million in forged paper money was hidden in Chichikov’s house, the house was cordoned off and two soldiers were stationed at each door.
— The Brothers Karamazov Oh, all that, of course, made me feel wretched, but not as terrible as the horrible realization that I had spent the money and was, therefore, now irredeemably a thief!
— Journey to the End of the Night The religion of the flag promptly replaced the cult of heaven, an old cloud which had already been deflated by the Reformation and reduced to a network of episcopal money boxes.
death
— Children of Gebelawi How wonderful Gebel’s quarter will be after the death of Zonfol!
— Memoirs of Hadrian I repeated to myself Virgil’s lines devoted to the nephew of Augustus, likewise designated to rule, and whom death stopped short on the way.
— Metamorphoses The Danaids who dared to do to death
Their cousin-husbands carry endlessly
The water that their sieves can never hold.
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or two, in a sudden squall say—to seize hold of the nearest oarsman’s hair, and hold on there like grim death.
— Memoirs of Hadrian It was important that the victim should not struggle, and that the death should appear voluntary.
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ——The sun was set—they had done their work; the nymphs had tied up their hair afresh—and the swains were preparing for a carousal——My mule made a dead point——’Tis the fife and tabourin, said I——I’m frighten’d to death, quoth he——They are running at the ring of pleasure, said I, giving him a prick——By saint Boogar, and all the saints at the backside of the door of purgatory, said he—(making the same resolution with the abbesse of Andoüillets) I’ll not go a step further——’Tis very well, sir, said I—I never will argue a point with one of your family, as long as I live; so leaping off his back, and kicking off one boot into this ditch, and t’other into that—I’ll take a dance, said I——so stay you here.
— Middlemarch But after what you have said, it is my duty to tell you that death from this disease is often sudden.
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them—“Come hither, broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them.
— History In death, his body seemed even smaller and skinnier than in life, and his face, even though swollen from torture, had taken on the characteristic look of the neighborhood granddad, because of his sharp chin that almost touched his nose.
— Sons and Lovers Always alone, his soul oscillated, first on the side of death, then on the side of life, doggedly.
— In Search of Lost Time My grandfather pointed out to my father in what respects the appearance of the place was still the same, and how far it had altered since the walk that he had taken with old M. Swann on the day of his wife’s death; and he seized the opportunity to tell us once again the story of that walk.
— History If you yell at her, one morning: ‘Good heavens! what’s happened to you?! Your nose has grown a foot long overnight!!’ she’ll rush to the mirror, scared to death.
— Essays Not one was seen so beaten down with wounds as not to try even in his last gasp to avenge himself, and with the weapons of despair to assuage his death in the death of some enemy.
— Pedro Páramo She was near death, and I would have promised her anything.
— The Sound of the Mountain He did not hear until later of Kitamoto’s death, which occurred during the air raids; and when Tanizaki Eiko came with her introduction, Kitamoto’s wife and children were still in Gifu Prefecture, where they had taken refuge from the raids.
— Memoirs of Hadrian His death was a battle lost for our side.
— Anna Karenina It’s like keeping a man condemned to death for months with a noose around his neck, promising him maybe death, maybe mercy.
— Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite Pacifics, the thousand mermaids sing to them—“Come hither, broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them.
— The Decameron Ser Cepperello deceives a holy friar with a false confession, then he dies; and although in life he was a most wicked man, in death he is reputed to be a Saint, and is called Saint Ciappelletto.
— Anna Karenina Levin would have liked to talk with them, to hear what they said to their father, but Natalie turned to him, and just then Lvov’s colleague, Makhotin, in a court uniform, came into the room to fetch him, so that they could go together to meet someone, and now an endless conversation started about Herzegovina, Princess Korzinsky, the duma, and the unexpected death of Mme Apraksin.
— Adventures of Huckleberry Finn This is the speech—I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king:
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane,
But that the fear of something after death
Murders the innocent sleep,
Great nature’s second course,
And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune
Than fly to others that we know not of.
— History Nora, with her death, had eluded by a few months the Italian racial decrees, which now stigmatized her irremediably as a Jew.
— Berlin Alexanderplatz There is an exhaustion that is like living death.
— Children of Gebelawi For fear of death he had put himself under the Trustee’s protection and lost everything; and yet death had come—death, which destroyed life with fear even before it struck.
— Sons and Lovers “Cowd as death!”
— Memoirs of Hadrian These feeble defences raised by man against death were developed along two lines: the first consisted in presenting death to us as an inevitable evil, and in reminding us that neither beauty, youth, nor love escapes decay; life and its train of ills are thus proved even more horrible than death itself, and it is better, accordingly, to die than to grow old.
— Anna Karenina The shame and disgrace of Alexei Alexandrovich and of Seryozha, and my own terrible shame — death will save it all.
— The Red and the Black She was worried that he might starve to death.
— The Brothers Karamazov “A dog’s death for a dog!”
— Berlin Alexanderplatz Cheering and shouting, marching by sixes and twos and threes, marches the French Revolution, marches the Russian Revolution, march the Peasant Wars, the Anabaptists, they all fall into line behind Death, there is cheering in their wake, they are headed for freedom, the old world must fall, wake up, the dawn air, widdeboom widdeboom, in sixes, in twos, in threes, brothers, to the sun, to freedom, brothers to the light, in stride and left, right, left, right, widdeboom widdeboom.
— Zorba the Greek The deceased often talked about you, she says, and left instructions that a santuri of his should be given to you after his death to help you to remember him.
— Essays However, if we are to believe a Church Father, Death is not an evil, unless that which follows it is.
— Essays No man should be called happy till his death;
Always we must await his final day,
Reserving judgment till he’s laid away.