1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

He who knows only his wife and loves her understands all women better than if he had known a thousand

A wife’s a worry, a non-wife’s even worse

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.