English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Leo Tolstoy

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Cornelia Funke quote: "My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story?..."
My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story? said Dustfinger at last. Cornelia Funke
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me. Kevin Bacon
You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed. Betty Cuthbert
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases. John Simon
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. Bishop Robert South
January Jones quote: "I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine..."
I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. January Jones
Nicole Kidman quote: "My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was..."
My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!' Nicole Kidman
Jack Layton quote: "Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of..."
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. Jack Layton
B. F. Skinner quote: "It is not a question of starting. The start has been made...."
It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on. B. F. Skinner
Dave Van Ronk quote: "I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in..."
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. Dave Van Ronk
All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen. Sandra Oh
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. Johnny Depp
It was English, and the wych-elm that she saw from the window was an English tree. No report had prepared her for its peculiar glory. It was neither warrior, nor lover, nor god; in none of these roles do the English excel. It was a comrade, bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots, but in its utmost fingers tenderness, and the girth, that a dozen men could not have spanned, became in the end evanescent, till pale bud clusters seemed to float in the air. E. M. Forster
Amanda Lear quote: "My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy."
My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy. Amanda Lear
Charlaine Harris quote: "I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on."
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on. Charlaine Harris