Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — 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
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked… — 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 Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — 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 precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — 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 be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
