Terrible Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“It was better not to remember such terrible details.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

— Leo Tolstoy

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

— Leo Tolstoy

“What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!”

— Leo Tolstoy

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and…

— Leo Tolstoy

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

— Leo Tolstoy

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume…

— Leo Tolstoy

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this…

— Leo Tolstoy

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living…

— Leo Tolstoy

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked…

— Leo Tolstoy

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,…

— Leo Tolstoy

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.…

— Leo Tolstoy