Sophia Tolstaya famous quotes

I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.
-- Sophia Tolstaya

#Morning #Insane #Dignity

One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.
-- Sophia Tolstaya

#Love #Stupid #Thinking

I never had time to do anything for myself. I've always had to subordinate my energy and time to the demands of my husband and children at any given moment. And now old age has crept up on me and I have used up all my mental and physical strength on my family ...
-- Sophia Tolstaya

#Children #Husband #Sacrifice

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.
-- Sophia Tolstaya

#Regret #Sacrifice #Men

family relationships have made me so ill!
-- Sophia Tolstaya

#Family #Made #Family Relationship

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.
-- Sophia Tolstaya

#Children #Wife #Nurse

A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look,

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

There is no dignity in television.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?