Leo Tolstoy Quotes Page 2
Best 62 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy – Page 2 of 3
Anna Karenina Quotes
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
“If you love me as you say you do, make it so that I am at peace.”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
“It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
“Love those you hate you.”
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
“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.”
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“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.”
Essays, Letters and Miscellanies Quotes
“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.”
The Kreutzer Sonata Quotes
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
War and Peace Quotes
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
“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.”
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.”
“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.”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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