War & Peace (TV Series)

Of Life and Death (1973)

Alan Dobie: Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Quotes 

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : I needn't have gone away.

  Natasha Rostova : Your father wanted it.

  Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : I shouldn't have agreed. It was pride. An absurd image in my mind of what love should be.

  Natasha Rostova : And what should it be?

  Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Oh... You should set no tests or examinations. And that's what I was doing. You'll have had to measure up to some romantic notion I had.

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Yes, that was death. I died and woke up. Yes. Death is an awakening.

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Love? What is love? Love hinders death. Love is life. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God. And to die means that I, a tiny particle of love, shall return to the universal and eternal source.

• Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Yes, it must seem sad to them. But how simple it is. They would interpret it their way. But they don't understand. I shall die. Well, what of it? I chose death. All my life, I chose death.