1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Those who can raise their thoughts to heaven will always have clear days, because the sun always shines above the clouds.

One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move.

God is the same everywhere.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity—that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself—and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life!

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.

What had become of his usually quiet and firm manner and the carelessly calm expression of his face? Every time he turned toward Anna he slightly bowed his head as if he wished to fall down before her, and in his eyes there was an expression of submission and fear. 'I do not wish to offend,' his every look seemed to say, 'I only wish to save myself, but I do not know how.