Quotes About Tolstoy Marriage

#1. In marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. The main thing, and the thing which such people as he do not understand," rejoined the lady, "is that only love consecrates marriage, and that the real marriage is that which is consecrated by love.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

Nick Cave

#4. The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Women, especially those who have passed through the school of marriage, know very well that conversations upon elevated subjects are only conversations, and that man seeks and desires the body and all that ornaments the body.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

Roland De Vaux

#10. Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.'
'Excuse me, but I absolutely cannot understand how after eating my fill here I could go past a bakery and steal a roll.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts
your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Regina Brett

#14. The open zipper at the bottom revealed two important details: her ass was as luscious as he had imagined, and she wasn't wearing any panties. His palms started to sweat. How was he supposed to fasten her dress when all he wanted to do was tear it off?

Stacey O'Neale

#15. I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

Saul Griffith

#16. What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A man of no account, wanted by no one and of no use to anyone.

Leo Tolstoy