1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

My chief sin is doubt. I doubt everything and am in doubt nearly all the time.''Doubt is natural to human weakness,' repeated the priest.

My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Life is a dream, death is an awakening.

Женитьба… так нечаянно, и разочарование, и запах изо рта жены, и чувственность, притворство! И эта мертвая служба, и эти заботы о деньгах, и так год, и два, и десять, и двадцать – и все то же. И что дальше, то мертвее. Точно равномерно я шел под гору, воображая, что иду на гору. Так и было. В общественном мнении я шел на гору, и ровно настолько из-под меня уходила жизнь… И вот готово, умирай!

One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.

The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.