Coming from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy an icon of Russian and world literature, telling the story of the Napoleonic Wars from a Russian perspective, these quotes highlight some of the themes of the novel.
Starting of from the 1805 the novel covers events like the battle of Austerlitz in 1805 and the French invasion in 1812, which is the culmination of the novel.
Told through the eyes of iconic characters like idealist Pierre Bezukhov, emotionless Andrew Bolkonski ,lively Natasha Rostova along with her older brother Nicholas Rostov.
All these and many more bring early 19th century Russia to life in both war and peace.
Here you can see snap shots of the great novel with these 17 Great Quotes from War
Quotes from War and Peace
War and Peace Quotes
“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist — I really believe he is Antichrist — I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, first line
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“God is the same everywhere.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. ”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before…”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“But one thing I beg of you, look on me as your friend; and if you want some help, advice, or simply want to open your heart to someone- not now, but when things are clearer in your heart- think of me.’ He took her hand and kissed it. ‘I shall be happy, if I am able…’ Pierre was confused.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
‘Don’t speak to me like that; I’m not worth it!’ cried Natasha…
‘Hush, hush your whole life lies before you,’ he said to her.
‘Before me! No! All is over for me,’ she said, with shame and humiliation.
‘All over?’ he repeated. ‘If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, best man in the world, and if I were free I would be on my knees this minute to beg for your hand and your love.”
“Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you’ll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you’re old and good for nothing…Otherwise all that’s good and lofty in you will be lost.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.” These thoughts seemed to him comforting. But they were only thoughts. Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun. And there was the former agitation and obscurity.”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
‘Nothing is without consequence, and nothing is important: it’s all the same in the end.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, last line
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