"Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and sham...
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
"If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he decei...
"To love life is to love God.
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
"Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward anot...
"-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.
"When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
"Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.
"And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...