More quotes by Leo Tolstoy

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."