Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

~ Leo Tolstoy

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

~ Leo Tolstoy

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

~ Leo Tolstoy

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

~ Leo Tolstoy

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

~ Leo Tolstoy

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Love those you hate you.

~ Leo Tolstoy

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

~ Leo Tolstoy

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

~ Leo Tolstoy

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Everything I know, I know because of love.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

~ Leo Tolstoy

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

~ Leo Tolstoy

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

~ Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

~ Leo Tolstoy

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

~ Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The best stories don't come from good vs. bad but good vs. good.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

~ Leo Tolstoy

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

~ Leo Tolstoy

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.

~ Leo Tolstoy

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

~ Leo Tolstoy

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

And where love ends, hate begins

~ Leo Tolstoy

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

~ Leo Tolstoy

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.

~ Leo Tolstoy