“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869), Book XII, Ch. 16

About Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Russian novelist and moral philosopher, author of 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

“I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

“Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”