Heart Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

There are as many loves as there are hearts.

— Leo Tolstoy

Every heart has its own skeletons.

— Leo Tolstoy

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

— Leo Tolstoy

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Now that Vronsky had deceived her, she was prepared to love Levin and to hate Vronsky.”

— Leo Tolstoy

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he…

— 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

“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.”

— Leo Tolstoy

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that…

— Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she…

— Leo Tolstoy

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great…

— Leo Tolstoy

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would…

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“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts…

— Leo Tolstoy

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate…

— Leo Tolstoy

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by…

— Leo Tolstoy

Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what…

— Leo Tolstoy

The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but…

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But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him…

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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

— Leo Tolstoy

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating…

— Leo Tolstoy

These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that…

— Leo Tolstoy

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would…

— Leo Tolstoy

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in…

— Leo Tolstoy

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him, and how terribly her…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's…

— Leo Tolstoy

As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and…

— Leo Tolstoy

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man…

— Leo Tolstoy

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress…

— Leo Tolstoy