The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — 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
“And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal… — 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
“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” — 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
