Tolstoy Quotes
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I love everybody and pity everybody.
— Leo Tolstoy
There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But
— Leo Tolstoy
Pierre held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful bosom as it rose and fell.
— Leo Tolstoy
Book is a nice companion
— Leo Tolstoy
But his voice was broken, his face pale,
— Leo Tolstoy
The greatest human achievement is love.
— Leo Tolstoy
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
— Leo Tolstoy
Kings are the slaves of history.
— Leo Tolstoy
Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?
— Leo Tolstoy
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
— Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
— Brooke Bida
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
— Leo Tolstoy
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
— Leo Tolstoy
There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before ...
— Leo Tolstoy
The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.
— Leo Tolstoy
Is it possible to say what one really feels?
— Leo Tolstoy
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
— Leo Tolstoy
If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.
— Abhijit Naskar
For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.
— Leo Tolstoy
The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.
— Leo Tolstoy
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
— Leo Tolstoy
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
— Leo Tolstoy
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
— Leo Tolstoy
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 pursuit of truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
— Leo Tolstoy
Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky ... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.
— Leo Tolstoy
He thought of nothing, desired nothing, except not to lag behind and to do the best job he could.
— Leo Tolstoy
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."- Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy
I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.
— Leo Tolstoy
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
— Leo Tolstoy
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
— Leo Tolstoy
I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody.
— Leo Tolstoy
To love life is to love God.
— Leo Tolstoy
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
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
— Leo Tolstoy
All art has this characteristic-it unites people.
— Leo Tolstoy
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
— Leo Tolstoy
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
— Leo Tolstoy
You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.
— Tom Stoppard
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
— Leo Tolstoy
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.
— Leo Tolstoy
Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?
— Leo Tolstoy
But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink he recovered. — Leo Tolstoy
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
— Leo Tolstoy
An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.
— Leo Tolstoy
I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.
— Leo Tolstoy
Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!
— Leo Tolstoy
True nonresistance is the one true resistance to evil. It kills and finally destroys the evil sentiment.
— Leo Tolstoy
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
— Leo Tolstoy
Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.
— Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion
— Leo Tolstoy
But live while you live, tomorrow you die ...
— Leo Tolstoy
The further one goes, the better the land seems.
— Leo Tolstoy
The activity of art is ... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
— Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living.
— Leo Tolstoy
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
— Leo Tolstoy
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!
— Leo Tolstoy
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
— Leo Tolstoy
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ... All will end in death, all!
— Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures
— Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race.
— Mark Twain