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‘These collisions were often caused by each not realising what was important to the other, and also by the fact that in those early days they were often in low spirits. (…) Only in the third month of their married life, after returning from Moscow were they had spent a month, did their life begin to run more smoothly.’ P569

“Levin felt more and more that his ideas of marriage and his dreams of how he would arrange his life had been but childishness, and that this was something he had never understood and was now still further from understanding, although it was happening to him; and in his breast a tremor rose higher and higher, and the unruly tears came to his eyes.”
P535

(…) Vronsky got up at once, and stooping before him looked up into his face without unbending his back. He could not understand Karenin, but felt that here was something high, and inaccessible to one with his outlook on life.
P 490

‘I would give much for the possibility of doubting. While I was in doubt it was hard, but not so hard as it is now. While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything. I doubt everything so much that I hate my son, and sometimes believe he is not my son. I am very unhappy.’ P 465

“I must add that the latter case is seldom met with in practice,’ and with a momentary glance at Karenin the lawyer became suddenly silent, like a man who when selling pistols has described the adventures of the different kinds, and waits for his customer’s decision.

The last alinea on this page nails the feeling of holding onto life, it nails the feeling of surviving through a huge wave of depression.