Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which ca...

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a bound...

Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection...

Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in chi...

what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and ...

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...

Remember that there is onlyone important time and is Now. The present moment isthe only time over wh...

You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth...

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the...

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet seclud...

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love whi...

I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, th...

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of...

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrific...

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. ...

Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a wo...

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people,—that is, in debauchery. And like the m...

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means ...

The position occupied by Toporóff, involving as it did an incongruity of purpose, could only be held...

It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession a...

The animalism of the brute nature in man is disgusting', he thought, 'but as long as it remains in i...

The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views ...

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be other...

Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, hu...

The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of t...

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one — in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone be...

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - "Caius is a man, men...

Perhaps you think I'm losing the thread of my thought? Not a bit of it! I'm still telling you the st...

At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so re...

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and sensel...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered go...

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but...

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich,...

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time ...

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, un...

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

In precisely the same way the specialty of government is not to obey, but to enforce obedience. And ...

...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace,...

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live tog...

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last yo...

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...

Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bună...

What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music h...

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, ...

I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of ...

As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture...

During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old comfo...

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole...

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogic...

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that lo...

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

...there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of som...

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in ...

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay the...

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless re...

It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or...

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intenti...

A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Aust...

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and...

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love...

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because ...

Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? A...

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you r...

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, ligh...

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and ther...

It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, o...

Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes ...

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b...

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into ...

I'm not a goose, you're the gooses for crying over nothing

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly...

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing an...

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince A...

Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and...

Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like th...

When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obv...

Everything depends on upbringing.

Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If the...

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, w...

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not ...

Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and ...

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.