"One may deal with things without love...but you cannot deal with men without it...It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law ...











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

More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second mont...
"Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
"As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepa...
"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
"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 dej...
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!
"Everything I know, I know because of love.
"But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to e...
"Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand. I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because ...
"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 sham...
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
"If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he decei...
"To love life is to love God.
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.