Quotes from book
A Confession

Name: A Confession
Author: Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Original title Исповедь (Russian, 1882)

A Confession , or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: A Confession

“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: Confession (1882), Ch. 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983
Source: A Confession

“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: A Confession

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