Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live,"… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — 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
“A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But a man’s relationship to the world is determined not just by his intellect but by his feelings and by his who… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — 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
“Let me speak at last,” she said. “For myself personally, I can’t conceive of love without family life. I am lonely, lonely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You do not admit the conceivability at all?' he queried. 'But why not? We admit the existence of electricity, of which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing… — 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
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is… — 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
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and… — 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
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people,—that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that… — 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
