1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

The one who is happy, that’s the one who is right.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that’s like supposing the same candle could last you all your life.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom – in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly – one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant!