Death Quote by Leo Tolstoy — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. …so remember: great achievements take time; there is no overnight success.”

“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me... And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!”

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

“Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.”

“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”

“You can't just make me different and then leave”

“Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.”