How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book… — 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 lie,what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a tattered coat and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Being lost and dead he had only to lie still, and was no longer obliged to wander through the pathless taiga. Otherwise,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — 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
“I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten--death.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling… — 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
