All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. — 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 Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Image
