1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Is it possible that this stranger has now become everything to me?" she asked herself, and immediately answered, "Yes, everything! He alone is now dearer to me than everything in the world.

Everyone knew he would soon and inevitably die, that he was already half dead. Every one wished that he would die quickly, and they all, concealing that feeling, brought him bottles of medicine, went to fetch medicines and doctors, and deceived him and themselves and one another. It was all a lie: a repulsive, insulting, blasphemous lie; and as a result of his character, and because he loved the dying man more than the others did, Levin felt that lie most painfully.

I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face.

Yes, there it is. Well, then, let there be pain."And death? Where is it?" He sought his old habitual fear of death and could not find it. Where was it? What death? There was no more fear because there was no more death.Instead of death there was light.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in the world in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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

That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene,good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caughtenough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.