1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Como osaríamos nosotros, miserables pecadores como somos, pretender iniciarnos en los sagrados y terribles secretos de la Providencia mientras estos despojos mortales que nos cubren interponen entre nosotros y el Eterno un velo impenetrable?

Que valor podrían tener aquellas miserias ante la voluntad del Todopoderoso, sin cuya voluntad no cae ni un solo cabello de la cabeza del hombre?

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

Birthdays are of no importance to a rational being. It’s a day like any other on which one has to do one’s work.

And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

It occurred to him that he had not spent his life as he should have done. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false.

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.