"To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really...
"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...
"But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of...
"When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hosti...
"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...
"Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actio...
"And where love ends, hate begins
"The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in l...
"And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.