“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
