"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy." ― Leo Tolstoy Joy Sorrow From Leo Tolstoy Novelist Added on 1/31/2026 About Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral thinker best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His fiction and essays addressed ethics, religion, and social reform. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in world literature. Born: 1828-09-09 Died: 1910-11-20 View all quotes from Leo Tolstoy
"Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - look, for on my soul it is curious...." ― Alexandre Dumas Read more
"If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; b..." ― Augustus Read more
"To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair." ― James Hillman Read more