I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky — Leo Tolstoy Hope Copy Share Image
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. — Leo Tolstoy Fortune Copy Share Image
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and… — Leo Tolstoy Aspirations Copy Share Image
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse. — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of… — Leo Tolstoy Commander in chief Copy Share Image
“The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not… — Leo Tolstoy Boldness Copy Share Image
“When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not… — Leo Tolstoy Melting snow Copy Share Image
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell… — Leo Tolstoy Antichrist Copy Share Image
“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel… — Leo Tolstoy Adults Copy Share Image
“Thus the truth—that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Prije se znalo dogoditi da je slobodni mislilac bio čovjek, koji je bio odgojen u pojmovima vjere, zakona i morala, i koji… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“who was it that had really sentenced him to death? Not the men on the commission that had first examined him—not one… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
