Leo Tolstoy

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

Leo Tolstoy

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Leo Tolstoy

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

Leo Tolstoy

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Leo Tolstoy

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Leo Tolstoy