1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.

Hayatının bütün izleri sanki ona sarılmış şöyle diyordu: "Hayır, bizi bırakıp gitmeyeceksin, başka birisi olmayacaksın, nasılsan öyle kalacaksın: Kuşkularınla, kendinden sonsuz hoşnutsuzluğunla, sonuçsuz kalan kendini düzeltme deneyimlerinle, yaşadığın düşüşlerle ve senin için olanaksız, sana nasip olmayacak sonsuz bir mutluluk beklentisiyle.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).

... the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the eyes smart, when the lungs are strengthened and refreshed by inhaling the aromatic autumn air, when even the nights are warm, and when in those dark warm nights, golden stars startle and delight us continually by falling from the sky.

If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.

He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

In general people held the opinion that Beletsky was a nice, good-natured chap. Perhaps he was; but in spite of his handsome, friendly face Olenin found him extremely unpleasant. He seemed to exhale the filth that Olenin had rejected.

Cât de bine e să te simți vinovat, să fii umilit, să știi asta și să nu te amărăști. E cu putință. Și cât e de necesar. Cât de rău e să crezi ca ai dreptate, ca ești mai presus de alții și să te bucuri! E foarte rău, iar eu trec prin asta. E păgubitor pentru adevărata viață.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.