1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!

Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.

However often she told herself that she must not get irritable when teaching her nephew, almost every time that, pointer in hand, she sat down to show him the French alphabet, she so longed to pour her own knowledge quickly and easily into the child–who was already afraid that Auntie might at any moment get angry–that at his slightest inattention she trembled, became flustered and heated, raised her voice, and sometimes pulled him by the arm and put him in the corner.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Without knowing what I am, and why I am here, it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that, and therefore I can't live,' he said to himself.

-Bu "halk" sözcüğü çok belirsiz, -dedi Levin. -Bucak katipleri, öğretmenler ve bin köylüden belki biri neyin söz konusu olduğunu biliyordur. Geri kalan seksen milyon, Mihaylıç gibi, bırak iradesini belirtmeyi, hangi konuda iradesini ifade etmesi gerektiği üzerine en küçük bir fikre bile sahip değildir. Bunun halkın iradesi olduğunu söylemeye nasıl hakkımız olabilir?

For him the problem was this: 'If I don't accept the replies offered by Christianity to the questions my life presents, what solutions do I accept?' And he not only failed to find in the whole arsenal of his convictions any kind of answer, but he could not even find anything resembling an answer.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

I don't know what happens next, I can't possibly know, I don't wish to know, but if that's all I want, if I want glory, if I want to be famous and loved by everyone, it's not my fault that I want this! ... What can I do, if I care for nothing but glory and the love of men? Death, wounds, the loss of my family - nothing can frighten me. I would give them all up for one moment of glory, triumph over men, to be loved by men I don't even know.