Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

• All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Journey, Men

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sarcastic, Style, Literature

• Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, War, Responsibility

  "Anna Karenina".

• 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

  Faith, Men, Doe

• War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Voice, Trying

• Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Reality, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.794, e-artnow

• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

• The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Men, Deeds And Words

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

• If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Men, Half

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.146, e-artnow

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