Leo Tolstoy Quotes


ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.


Citations

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, p. 1083.

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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
  • Born: September 9, 1828
  • Died: November 20, 1910
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 9 September, 1828 – 20 November, 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. That he never won is a major controversy.