Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.
Leo TolstoyWhat is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.
Leo Tolstoy[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken by the highest bidder.
Leo TolstoyWithout knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: life knowledge philosophy existentialism
I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.
Leo TolstoyIt would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: sin self-destructive-behavior impulsiveness
Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood.
Leo TolstoyI killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.
Leo TolstoyEveryone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.
Leo TolstoyGod knows of love
Leo TolstoyStichwörter: drama
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