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
“But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in… — 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
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
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — 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
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and… — 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
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
Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no… — 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
“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
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — 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
“... 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion… — 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
“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
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
“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
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that… — 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
“When the body, washed and dressed, lay in the coffin on a table, everyone came to take leave of him and they… — 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
“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
“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,’ he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What is the matter with you?" asked Shcherbatsky. "Nothing much, but there is little to be happy about in this world." "Little?… — 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
“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
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
