--- title: "13 First time Quotes By Leo Tolstoy" description: "13 First time quotes by Leo Tolstoy. Plus more from Leo Tolstoy and more First time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/leo-tolstoy-55_first-time_for-the-first-time-in-his-life-he-knew-t_786627.png" --- > [“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/for-the-first-time-in-his-life-he-knew-the-bitterest-sort-of/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/leo-tolstoy-55_first-time_for-the-first-time-in-his-life-he-knew-t_786627.png) > [“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/death-the-inevitable-end-of-everything-confronted-him-for-the-first/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/leo-tolstoy-55_death_death-the-inevitable-end-of-everything-c_64716.png) > [“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/pierre-had-for-the-first-time-experienced-that-strange-and/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c31/leo-tolstoy-55_first-time_pierre-had-for-the-first-time-experience_1409738.jpg) > [“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/pierre-was-for-the-first-time-at-this-meeting-impressed-by-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/leo-tolstoy-55_first-time_pierre-was-for-the-first-time-at-this-me_1219219.png) > [“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/natasha-with-a-vigorous-turn-from-her-heel-on-to-her-toe-walked-over/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/leo-tolstoy-55_first-time_natasha-with-a-vigorous-turn-from-her-he_3046771.png) > [“When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/when-the-peasants-and-their-song-had-vanished-from-his-sight-and/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/702/leo-tolstoy-55_first-time_when-the-peasants-and-their-song-had-van_2322913.png) > [“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/having-then-for-the-first-time-clearly-understood-that-before-every-2/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c9/leo-tolstoy-55_death_having-then-for-the-first-time-clearly-u_3213903.jpg) > [“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/for-the-first-time-i-envisaged-the-idea-that-we-that-is-our-family/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/leo-tolstoy-55_another-life_for-the-first-time-i-envisaged-the-idea_1595000.png) > [“At one point, in the east, the mists grew lighter and were clad in gold, like warriors. Then the mists swayed, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/at-one-point-in-the-east-the-mists-grew-lighter-and-were-clad-in-gold/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cf/leo-tolstoy-55_every-day_at-one-point-in-the-east-the-mists-grew_2127783.jpg) > [“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/has-it-ever-befallen-you-my-readers-to-become-suddenly-aware-that/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c1/leo-tolstoy-55_books_has-it-ever-befallen-you-my-readers-to-b_29992.png) > [“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-possibility-of-death-presented/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/leo-tolstoy-55_clear-vision_and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-p_1950308.jpg) > [“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/yes-love-but-not-the-love-that-loves-for-something-to-gain-something/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/leo-tolstoy-55_divine-love_yes-love-but-not-the-love-that-loves-for_1236978.png) > [“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/since-the-moment-when-at-the-sigh-of-his-beloved-and-dying-brother/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc2/leo-tolstoy-55_death_since-the-moment-when-at-the-sigh-of-his_1647084.png) ## Other authors on First time ## More by Leo Tolstoy > [These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/these-joys-were-so-trifling-as-to-be-as-imperceptible-as-grains-of/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-only-significance-of-life-consists-in-helping-to-establish-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-already-love-in-you-your-beauty-but-i-am-only-beginning-to-love-in/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/energy-rests-upon-love-and-come-as-it-will-there-s-no-forcing-it/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/if-you-only-knew-what-those-society-women-are-and-women-in-general-my/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-evoke-in-oneself-a-feeling-one-has-once-experienced-and-having/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-speak-of-it-would-be-giving-importance-to-that-which-has-none/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/once-we-re-thrown-off-our-habitual-paths-we-think-all-is-lost-but-it/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-knew-she-was-there-by-the-rapture-and-the-terror-that-seized-on/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/rest-nature-books-music-such-is-my-idea-of-happiness/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/he-was-not-to-blame-for-being-born-with-an-irrepressible-charachter/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/i-ask-one-thing-only-i-ask-for-the-right-to-hope-to-suffer-as-i-do/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-idea-shared-by-many-that-life-is-a-vale-of-tears-is-just-as-false/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/to-say-that-a-work-of-art-is-good-but-incomprehensible-to-the/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) > [True life is lived when tiny changes occur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/true-life-is-lived-when-tiny-changes-occur/) [Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/) ```json 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Then the mists swayed, and the golden warriors bent low. From behind them the sun rose, settled upon the gilt mountain ridges and beamed upon the plain, flooding it with its dazzling brilliance. And the mists now soared triumphantly in a glorious ring, broke up in the west and, fluttering, drifted off into the heights above. Makar thought that he heard a marvelous song. It was the very hymn with which the earth greeted the rising sun every day. Only Makar had not paid attention to it before, and this was the first time in all his life that he realized how beautiful the song was. He stood still listening to it, and refused to go any farther. 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No doubt I had known all this before — only I had not known it then as I knew it now; I had never properly felt or understood it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leo Tolstoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/has-it-ever-befallen-you-my-readers-to-become-suddenly-aware-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c1/leo-tolstoy-55_books_has-it-ever-befallen-you-my-readers-to-b_29992.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c1/leo-tolstoy-55_books_has-it-ever-befallen-you-my-readers-to-b_29992.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c1/leo-tolstoy-55_books_has-it-ever-befallen-you-my-readers-to-b_29992.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered…” — Leo Tolstoy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world, or any effect it might have on other people, but purely in relation to himself and his own soul, and it seemed so vivid, almost a dependable certainty, stark and terrible. And from the heights of this vision everything that had once tormentingly preoccupied him seemed suddenly bathed in a cold, white light with no shadows, no perspective, no outline. His whole life seemed like a magic-lantern show that he had been staring at through glass by artificial light. Now suddenly the glass was gone, and he could see those awful daubings in the clear light of day. 'Yes, yes, here they are, these false images that I used to find so worrying, enthralling and agonizing,' he told himself, giving his imagination a free rein to run over the main pictures in the magic lantern of his life, looked anew in the cold, white daylight brought on by a clear vision of death. 'Here they are, these crudely daubed figures that used to seem so magnificent and mysterious. Honour and glory, philanthropy, love of a woman, love of Fatherland -- how grand these pictures used to seem, filled with such deep meanings! And now it all looks so simple, colourless and crude in the cold light of the morning I can feel coming upon me.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leo Tolstoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-possibility-of-death-presented/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/leo-tolstoy-55_clear-vision_and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-p_1950308.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/leo-tolstoy-55_clear-vision_and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-p_1950308.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/leo-tolstoy-55_clear-vision_and-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-the-p_1950308.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the…” — Leo Tolstoy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew that feeling of love which is the essence of the soul, for which no object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling now too. To love one's neighbours; to love one's enemies. To love everything - to Love God in all His manifestations. Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. And that was why I felt such joy when I felt that I loved that man. What happened to him? Is he alive? ...Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is the very nature of the soul. And how many people I have hated in my life. And of all people none I have loved and hated more than her… If it were only possible for me to see her once more... once, looking into those eyes to say...”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Leo Tolstoy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/yes-love-but-not-the-love-that-loves-for-something-to-gain-something/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/leo-tolstoy-55_divine-love_yes-love-but-not-the-love-that-loves-for_1236978.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/leo-tolstoy-55_divine-love_yes-love-but-not-the-love-that-loves-for_1236978.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/leo-tolstoy-55_divine-love_yes-love-but-not-the-love-that-loves-for_1236978.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but…” — Leo Tolstoy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them...he had been less horrified by death than by life without the least knowledge of whence it came, what it is for, why, and what it is. Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development--the terms that had superseded these beliefs--were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur coat fora muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being that he is as good as naked and that he must inevitably perish miserably. From that moment, without thinking about it and though he continued living as he had done heretofore, Levin never ceased to feel afraid of his ignorance...What astounded and upset him most in his connection, was that the majority of those in his set and of his age, did not see anything to be distressed about, and were quite contented and tranquil. So that, besides the principal question, Levin was tormented by other questions: were these people sincere? Were they not pretending? 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