“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.' 'Excuse me, but I absolutely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I know more of the world than you do," she said. "I know how men like Stiva look at it. You speak… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — 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
