1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

All at once I felt clearly and calmly that the feeling of that time had gone never to return, like the time itself, and that to bring it back now would be not only impossible, but painful and forced.

No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.

Ayaklarını indirdi, kolunun üzerine yan yattı ve birden kendine acımaya başladı. Gerasim'in bitişik odaya geçmesini bekledi, sonra kendini bıraktı ve çocuklar gibi ağlamaya başladı. Umarsızlığına, korkunç yalnızlığına, insanların acımasızlığına, Tanrı'nın acımasızlığına, Tanrı'nın yokluğuna ağlıyordu.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.

I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with a sort of new brilliance. That world of her own seemed quite new to her now so sweet and precious that she would not on any account spend an extra day outside it, and she made up her mind that she would certainly go back next day.

- but are you really so in love?- Oh, it is not that at all. It is not that, it is some kind of power that has seized me and holds me. I do not know what to do.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.