Alive Quote by Paul Neilan

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.

— Jon Winokur

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through…

— Mel Brooks

“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?”

— Sarah Arthur

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me… If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by…

— Ivan Turgenev

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

— Elif Batuman

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he”

— Brandt Legg

“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible…

— Leo Tolstoy