Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is pleasure without regret.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

If you want to be happy, be.

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.

Read less, study less, but think more.

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

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

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

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Everything I understand, I understand because I love.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.