Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Love

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  • It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

    Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1241, Oxford University Press
  • All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

    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
  • He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.415, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
  • Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

    Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.355, Oxford University Press
  • Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  • Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1098, Wizio Publishing
  • One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

  • The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

    Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.210, Everyman's Library
  • It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”
  • If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

    Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides
  • When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

  • And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

    "Tales from Tolstoi".
  • I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.189, e-artnow
  • Where there is love, there is God also.

    "Tolstoi for the Young".
  • To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

    Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.71, Courier Corporation
  • Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”
  • Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1092, e-artnow
  • To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)”, p.55, BIG BYTE BOOKS
  • The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

    War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 11 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)
  • And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

    Men  
    graf Leo Tolstoy (1902). “The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”
  • Commit no act that is contrary to love.

  • Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

  • ... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1429, e-artnow
  • Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

  • When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

  • Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

    Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2002, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

    Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.20, Courier Corporation
  • Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

    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
  • You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

    Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.921, Vintage
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