200+ "Leo Tolstoy" Quotes And Sayings

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the greatest authors of all time. His best-known works include Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, Resurrection, Anna Karénaia and other novels, as well as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, What Is Art?, Essays on Problems of Philosophy, Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman, What Is to Be Done?, What Is Art? and others. Tolstoy believed that art should reflect the moral order of the world and so opposed artistic expression in anything other than serious literature Read more

He was also an advocate of voluntary poverty in response to the extreme poverty he experienced during his youth.

I think... if it is true that there are as...
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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. Leo Tolstoy
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love...
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. Leo Tolstoy
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it...
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina} Leo Tolstoy
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you...
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I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. Leo Tolstoy
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know...
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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. Leo Tolstoy
If you love me as you say you do, '...
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If you love me as you say you do, ' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. Leo Tolstoy
The whole world is divided for me into two parts:...
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... Leo Tolstoy
You can love a person dear to you with a...
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. Leo Tolstoy
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
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It's hard to love a woman and do anything. Leo Tolstoy
Love those you hate you.
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Love those you hate you. Leo Tolstoy
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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We are asleep until we fall in Love! Leo Tolstoy
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his...
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul. Leo Tolstoy
He felt now that he was not simply close to...
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. Leo Tolstoy
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Everything I know, I know because of love. Leo Tolstoy
I'm like a starving man who has been given food....
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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. Leo Tolstoy
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence....
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. Leo Tolstoy
He looked at her as a man might look at...
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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it Leo Tolstoy
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your...
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor – such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy