Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
Leo Tolstoy quotes about
wall regret wife
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!
heart men different
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.
peace if-you-love-me ifs
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
dream spring desire
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
needs lovers ifs
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.
queens discipline nonsense
Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!
childhood quiet candor
Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
childhood quiet candor
Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?
stones bread raises
Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".
inspirational life dream
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
giving would-be speak
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.
dream country teaching
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.
love war humility
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
fairytale knows
… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.