Leo Tolstoy Quotes

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

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

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

There's no victory-condition for being human.