Children Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Children: a torment and nothing more.

— Leo Tolstoy

“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I…

— Leo Tolstoy

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you…

— Leo Tolstoy

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,…

— Leo Tolstoy

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time…

— Leo Tolstoy

“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it…

— Leo Tolstoy

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.…

— Leo Tolstoy

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel…

— Leo Tolstoy

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…

— Leo Tolstoy

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but…

— Leo Tolstoy

“How many trials and tribulations we have to go through in order to enjoy them as they are now! And even now,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“S., a clever and truthful man, once told me the story of how he ceased to believe. On a hunting expedition, when…

— Leo Tolstoy

“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What a boy, cousin! He ought to have been whipped, but the trick was so spirited and amusing that I let him…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded…

— Leo Tolstoy

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity…

— Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is…

— Leo Tolstoy

“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold…

— Leo Tolstoy

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Vasilisa had not seen her daughter for four years. Her daughter, Yefimya, had gone after her wedding to Petersburg, had sent them…

— Leo Tolstoy