Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.
Leo TolstoyDeath destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
Leo TolstoyIn all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
Leo TolstoyThough the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
Leo TolstoyWhen Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
Leo Tolstoy