And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My second sentiment was a craving for love. I wanted every one to know me and to love me. I wanted to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The higher a man’s conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — 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
What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — 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… — 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
