Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 5

In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.

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.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.
Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes - according to the fashion - but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans

Rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness.

Anna read and understood, but it was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the reflection of other people's lives. She was too eager to live herself.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another.

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.
He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.