Leo Tolstoy Quotes on Happiness
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher whose two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are among the supreme achievements of world literature. This page collects quotes attributed to Leo Tolstoy on the topic of happiness, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему. -
Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“If you want to be happy, be.”
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“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
War and Peace(1865–1867; 1869) | Book IV, Ch. 11 -
“To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.”
War and Peace(1865–1867; 1869) | Bk. XIV, ch. 15 -
“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”
Family Happiness(1859) | Part 1, chapter 2 -
“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”
Anna Karenina(1875–1877; 1878) | Pt. I, ch. 9