“He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982 — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Faith—or not faith—I don't know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their… — 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
People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The soul of man is the lamp of God,’ says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has to save his own soul, and has to do God's work himself, but instead of that we… — 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
“I am certain, too, that such a soul, such a heart and principles, as are hers are not to be found elsewhere… — 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
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
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
