Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is."

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

"It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."

"One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."

"It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."

"If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live"

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."

"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."

"It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it."

"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."

"Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible."

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

"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."

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