Ditte Knaepen > Ditte's Quotes

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“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...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 8

“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“-Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina