Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires.

— Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy, be.

— Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

— Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

— Leo Tolstoy

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

— Leo Tolstoy

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

— Leo Tolstoy

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

— Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

— Leo Tolstoy

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

— Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

— Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

— Leo Tolstoy

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

— Leo Tolstoy

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

— Leo Tolstoy

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

— Leo Tolstoy

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

— Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

— Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

— Leo Tolstoy

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

— Leo Tolstoy
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