Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

“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...”

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

“Boredom: the desire for desires.”

“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is hi...”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

“What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music has an uplifting effect on the soul: what rot! It isnt true. Its true that it has an effect, it ha...”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”

“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could conside...”

“Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life”

“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, pla...”

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shameful...”

“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of h...”

“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 Adam to our own times, is that temple reared whi...”

“Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did not see it, and that he himself had for such a long while not seen what was so clearly evident. ...”

“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...”

“Este incredibil ct de complet este iluzia care ne face s credem c frumuseea este n genere buntate.”