“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — 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
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are you? What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when she got up it was quite light, and it turned out to be half past nine. There had been a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Time is an illusion of life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Did he suffer very much?" asked Pyotr Ivanovich. "Oh, awfully! For the last moments, hours indeed, he never left off screaming. For… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated",is to say nothing at all. Those are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Papa was a gentleman of the last century, with all the chivalrous character, self-reliance, and gallantry of the youth of that time.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,… — 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
