Leo Tolstoy Quotes

-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If you want to be happy, be.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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

To love life is to love God.

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.