Pierre Bezukhov

Character in War and Peace From: War and Peace

Illegitimate son seeking meaning and spiritual redemption

425 quotes

"Life is everything. Life is God."
Faith
"Life has taught me that truth is the highest virtue."
Truth
"In every human heart there is a spark of heavenly fire."
Faith
"Man cannot alter circumstances, but he can alter his attitude toward them"
Wisdom
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand"
Change
"The difficulty of the task only increases my desire to undertake it"
Motivation
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you"
Gratitude
"Everything comes to those who wait."
Patience
"Our assumptions and conjectures are the source of our suffering."
Fear
"We cannot change what we are, only what we do."
Change
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Happiness
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Love
"To get at the truth we must first put aside our pride and our bad habits."
Truth
"Man cannot possess anything so long as he fears death."
Fear
"The simplest and most obvious truths are the hardest to see and understand."
Wisdom
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Freedom
"We cannot live only for ourselves; the lives of all people are interdependent."
"Life, after all, is not a thing of importance so long as it is not useless."
Life
"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."
Happiness
"To love life is to love God."
Faith
"The most difficult thing, but an essential one, is to love life in all its manifestations."
Life
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Perseverance
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."
Wisdom
"Man cannot alter the laws of nature, but he can understand them"
Wisdom
"The principal fact of any man's life is his relation to God"
Faith
"It is necessary that there should be men such as we are"
Motivation
"Morality and religion are not the same thing"
Faith
"Freedom is the source of all human energy"
Freedom
"We are the prisoners of our own consciousness"
Philosophy
"The good that results from a single effort is immeasurable"
Motivation