“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Falsity Copy Share Image
“In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.” — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.” — Leo Tolstoy Sleep Copy Share Image
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. — Leo Tolstoy Human life 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 Alone in love Copy Share Image
“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former… — Leo Tolstoy Born free Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures” — Leo Tolstoy Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
“Indeed, a bird is made in such a way that it can fly, gather food and build a nest, and when I… — Leo Tolstoy Human existence Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged… — Leo Tolstoy Insanity Copy Share Image
“Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might… — Leo Tolstoy Personal qualities Copy Share Image
“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
“Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life,… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone.… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
