Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Tolstoy

I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.

Leo Tolstoy

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

Leo Tolstoy

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Leo Tolstoy

I don’t think badly of people. I like everybody, and I’m sorry for everybody.

Leo Tolstoy

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one’s self simply, like a boy.

Leo Tolstoy

I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Leo Tolstoy

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Leo Tolstoy

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leo Tolstoy

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Leo Tolstoy