Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it, it's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief