That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.
Weitere Zitate von Leo Tolstoy
Zum Autor"Nice passion is reading."
"There are such repulsive faces in the world."
"Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
"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!"
"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
"Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."