Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Life is fragile and absurd.

— Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

— Leo Tolstoy

I don’t count life as life without love

— Leo Tolstoy

Only those live who do good.

— Leo Tolstoy

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

— Leo Tolstoy

“I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

— Leo Tolstoy

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

— Leo Tolstoy

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

— Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

— Leo Tolstoy

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

— Leo Tolstoy

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

— Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

— Leo Tolstoy

“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin”

— Leo Tolstoy

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,…

— Leo Tolstoy

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at…

— Leo Tolstoy

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

— Leo Tolstoy

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me…

— Leo Tolstoy

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal…

— Leo Tolstoy

“if the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.”

— Leo Tolstoy

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in…

— Leo Tolstoy

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in…

— Leo Tolstoy

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain…

— Leo Tolstoy

“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;…

— Leo Tolstoy

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Sometimes he remembered having heard how soldiers under fire in the trenches, and having nothing to do, try hard to find some…

— Leo Tolstoy

“They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all…

— Leo Tolstoy