Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Read less, study less, but think more.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

If you want to be happy, be.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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

A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Happiness is pleasure without regret.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.