Leo Tolstoy Quotes

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."

"Years of love have been forgotten in the hatred of a minute."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

"Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them."

"The nose of a mob is its imagination."

"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing."

"Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore."