“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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 Agony Copy Share Image
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Capital-accumulation Copy Share Image
“Ivan Ilych had been a colleague of the gentlemen present and was liked by them all. He had been ill for some… — Leo Tolstoy Ilych Death Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old… — Leo Tolstoy Old men Copy Share Image
“My friend was perfectly right, though it was not until long, long afterwards that experience of life taught me the evil that… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to hate him for that look.… — Leo Tolstoy Young man Copy Share Image
“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now… — Leo Tolstoy Doubt Copy Share Image
“Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity 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 Death 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 Circumstances Copy Share Image
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much… — Leo Tolstoy Appearance 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 Feelings Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful, white, ring-adorned hands and began to demonstrate. She obviously could see that her… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“You take Seryozha to hurt me,” she said, looking at him from under her brows. “You do not love him. . .… — Leo Tolstoy Hurt Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to… — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“the event had to take place simply because it had to take place. Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and their… — Leo Tolstoy Men Gone Copy Share Image
“Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this… — Leo Tolstoy Wonderfully-romantic Copy Share Image
“We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there… — Leo Tolstoy Focus Copy Share Image
“Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger… — Leo Tolstoy Courage Copy Share Image
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The… — Leo Tolstoy Denominator Copy Share Image
“Returned home for dinner and dined alone—the countess had many visitors I do not like. I ate and drank moderately and after… — Leo Tolstoy Returned Home Copy Share Image
Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Leo Tolstoy Chosen Copy Share Image
“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Amusing Copy Share Image
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be… — Leo Tolstoy Distress Copy Share Image
“As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part… — Leo Tolstoy Ether Copy Share Image
