I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.
Weitere Zitate von Leo Tolstoy
Zum Autor"He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it."
"It's bad to be unable to stand solitude."
"It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false."
"Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
"Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death."
"I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which came to an end without having ever found self-expression or return. It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood's days, for those days to come back to me!"