Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Memories, Past

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

• Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Creepy, Wake Up

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.551, Courier Corporation

• If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Country, Teaching

  "Patriotism or Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

• As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Real, Lasts

• We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

• Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Spring, Desire

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.9, Oxford University Press, USA

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