Grief Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“Grief is never fatal.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

— Leo Tolstoy

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no…

— Leo Tolstoy

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside…

— Leo Tolstoy

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Throughout the whole time that Grandmama's body was in the house I was oppressed with the fear of death, for the corpse…

— Leo Tolstoy

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most…

— Leo Tolstoy

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his…

— Leo Tolstoy

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;…

— Leo Tolstoy