“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.” — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Doubt Copy Share Image
“without knowing who I am and why I’m here it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that and therefore I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?” — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.' 'Excuse me, but I absolutely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to… — Leo Tolstoy Almighty Copy Share Image
“It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man, to forget what you've said, as I forget… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the… — Leo Tolstoy Humanity Copy Share Image
“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Svećenik je mirne savjesti radio sve ono što je radio, jer je od djetinjstva bio odgojen u tom da je ovo jedina… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to be the same… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Company Copy Share Image
“When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but… — Leo Tolstoy Children 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 Death Copy Share Image
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Home Copy Share Image
Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that… — Leo Tolstoy Care Copy Share Image
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.” — Leo Tolstoy Angling Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like… — Leo Tolstoy Bicycle Copy Share Image
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. — Leo Tolstoy Kinds of love Copy Share Image
“But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it” — Leo Tolstoy Honor Copy Share Image
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy Acquisition Copy Share Image
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew which has grown up on a tiny planet.” — Leo Tolstoy Dark Copy Share Image
“We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it… — Leo Tolstoy Body Copy Share Image