I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from the pain she had… — 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
“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to… — 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… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — 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
“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
“Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — 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
