Leo Tolstoy Quotes

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Want is misery.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

I envy the dead.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Love and despair go hand in hand.