80+ Tolstoy Quotes: A Famous Russian Author in 19th Century

Tolstoy Love Quotes

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• "Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

• "To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings."

• "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."

• "It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty."

• "It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love."

• "But their eyes when they met spoke more fondly and kissed tenderly."

• "I think … if so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."

• "He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women."

• And all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.

• "I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live."

• "If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life."

Tolstoy Quotes War and Peace

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• “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “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, War and Peace

• “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, War and Peace

• “It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”― leo tolstoy, War and Peace

• “We are asleep until we fall in Love!”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “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, War and Peace

• “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Everything I know, I know because of love.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew that feeling of love which is the essence of the soul, for which no object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling now too. To love one's neighbours; to love one's enemies. To love everything - to Love God in all His manifestations. Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. And that was why I felt such joy when I felt that I loved that man. What happened to him? Is he alive? ...Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is the very nature of the soul. And how many people I have hated in my life. And of all people none I have loved and hated more than her.... If it were only possible for me to see her once more... once, looking into those eyes to say...”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

• “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, War and Peace

• “How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Life did not stop, and one had to live.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Everything depends on upbringing. ”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Kings are the slaves of history.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “A Frenchman's self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does as an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets. A Russian is self-assured simply because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe in the possibility of knowing anything fully.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “God is the same everywhere.”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

• “Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

Tolstoy Family Happiness Quotes

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• “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, Family Happiness

• “I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. 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. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “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, Family Happiness

• “I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but...”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and has seen nothing as yet of life or of the world. Family circumstances of various kinds brought them together, and he grew to love her as a daughter, and had no fear that his love would change its nature. But he forgot that B was so young, that life was still a May-game to her and that it was easy to fall in love with her in a different way, and that this would amuse her. He made a mistake and was suddenly aware of another feeling, as heavy as remorse, making its way into his heart, and he was afraid. He was afraid that their old friendly relations would be destroyed, and he made up his mind to go away before that happened.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “My vague confused dreams became a reality and the reality became an oppressive, difficult, joyless life. All remained the same.

• "Once it seemed so plain and right that to live for others was happiness; now it has become unintelligible. Why live for others, when life had no attraction even for oneself?”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “All at once I felt clearly and calmly that the feeling of that time had gone never to return, like the time itself, and that to bring it back now would be not only impossible, but painful and forced.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We complete in generosity--what an example of family happiness!”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “Why did you give me a freedom for which I was unfit? Why did you stop teaching me? If you wished it, if you guided me differently, none of all this would happened. I should not now be punished, for no fault at all, by your indifference and even contempt, and you would not have taken from me unjustly all that I valued in life. Let us be thankful that there is an end of the old emotions and excitements. That day ended a romance of our marriage. Old feeling became a precious irrecoverable remembrance but a new feeling of love for my kids and their father laid the foundation of a new life and quite different happiness. That life and happiness lasted until to the present time.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so fair and lovely outside of me, while my own heart is confused and baffled and full of vague and unsatisfied longing.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I wanted feeling to guide us in life, and not life to be the guide to feeling.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “Het hinderde me dat hij zijn klaarheid en rust alweer had teruggewonnen terwijl er in mij nog zoveel ergernis was.”― tolstoi L.N., huwelijksgeluk

• “I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “Ik verlangde naar beweging en niet naar een zo rustig voorbijgaand leven. Ik verlangde naar opwinding, naar gevaren, naar een gelegenheid mij op te offeren voor mijn gevoel.”― tolstoi L.N., huwelijksgeluk

• “you have the sweetest of all music in your soul just now.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “There is not in me what you are looking for... Why deceive ourselves?”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “Tegen het einde van de winter werd dit wanhopige verlangen weg te komen uit deze eenzaamheid en ook het gewone gevoel van verveling zo groot, dat ik de kamer niet meer uitkwam, geen piano meer speelde en geen boeken meer wilde lezen. Als katja mij tractte te overhalen toch iets te gaan doen, antwoordde ik :'ik heb geen zin, ik kan niet.', Maar in mijn hart zei een stem: Waarom? Waarom zoui k iets doen wanneer mijn mooiste jaren zo verloren gaan? En op dit waarom had ik geen ander antwoord dan tranen.”― tolstoi L.N., huwelijksgeluk

• “Maar plotseling begon mijn hart sneller te slaan, mijn hand beefde en drukte de zijne; ik werd warm en met mijn ogen zocht ik in het halfduister zijn blik en plotseling voelde ik, dat ik niet bang voor hem was, maar dat deze angst liefde was, een nieuwe liefde, groter en inniger dan vroeger.”― tolstoi L.N., huwelijksgeluk

• “Me parecía que mi vida estaba condenada a transcurrir en ese lugar solitario y apartado del mundo, en medio de una melancolía impotente de la que no tenía yo ni fuerzas ni ganas de salir.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “All of us, especially you women, have to go for themselves through all the nonsense of life to come back to life itself”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “«Что же делать? — думала я. — Чем же я виновата, что я счастлива? Но как поделиться счастьем? как и кому отдать всю себя и все свое счастье?..»”― Лев Николаевич Толстой, Семейное счастие

• “Yo no necesitaba eso, necesitaba la lucha; necesitaba que el sentimiento fuese el que dirigiera nuestra vida y no la vida nuestro sentimiento.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

• “No en vano él decía que en la vida hay una felicidad indiscutible: vivir para el otro.”― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

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