... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next? — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time… — Leo Tolstoy Future and present Copy Share Image
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy Death 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 Clock Copy Share Image
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not. — Leo Tolstoy Cry Copy Share Image
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning.… — Leo Tolstoy Action 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… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
“But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was… — Leo Tolstoy Infatuation Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by… — Leo Tolstoy Acceptance Copy Share Image
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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 Battle Copy Share Image
“He got up, wishing to go around, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox right over Helene, behind her back. Helene moved… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.… — Leo Tolstoy Liberal Copy Share Image
“So they are even more frightened than we are,' he thought. 'Why, is this all that's meant by heroism? And did I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according… — Leo Tolstoy Beheading Copy Share Image
“I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read,… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Postovanje je izmisljeno da se sakrije praznina gde bi trebalo da bude ljubav. A ako me vise ne volis, onda je bolje… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten--death.” — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"... — Leo Tolstoy Angel Copy Share Image
“The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself” — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But there was something in her higher than what surrounded her. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy Casinos Copy Share Image
but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence. — Leo Tolstoy Injustice Copy Share Image
“No teško je nezadovoljnu čovjeku da ne kori bilo koga drugoga, i to upravo onoga tko mu je najbliži, za ono zbog… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
