104 quotes found
“Book is a nice companion”
“God is the same everywhere.”
“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
“Life did not stop, and one had to live.”
“Everything I know, I know because of 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 dejection and darkness...”
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”
“There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.”
“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 b...”
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
“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. ”
“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...”
“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what m...”
“After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to the ladies, and listened to her. In the middle of a phrase,...”
“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.”
“Natasha, with a vigorous turn from her heel on to her toe, walked over to the middle of the room and stood still... Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, a serious expr...”
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”
“When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, a...”
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
