Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose tha

Summary

This quote reflects a cynical perspective on the human experience, suggesting that the sole purpose of our existence is to engage in hatred and inflict suffering upon ourselves and others. It highlights a bleak view of human nature, implying that conflict and pain are inherent and unavoidable aspects of life. This short explanation encapsulates the quote's pessimistic outlook and raises existential questions about the nature and purpose of human relationships.

Topics

Future

By Leo Tolstoy

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concern

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later

Myths

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancin

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.Is that the first sign of love?You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

Love Family Children

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

Love

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Opinion

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Argument & Debate

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was rep

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

Expectations

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Thought

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson

Future

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

Relationship

My inspiration is ART. . . Because without ART we would just

My inspiration is ART. . . Because without ART we would just be stuck with reality.http://www.dansinspiration.com/index.php

Daniel Robert Lynch

Art

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

Sad