“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I recalled the hundreds of occasions when life had died within me only to be reborn. I remembered that I only lived… — 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
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“who was it that had really sentenced him to death? Not the men on the commission that had first examined him—not one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is - everything… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If there were no magnanimity in war, we'd go to it only when it was worth going to certain death, as now.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One step across the dividing line, so like the one between the living and the dead and you enter an unknown world… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is Good? What should one love, what hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — 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
