War & Peace (TV Series)

The Road to Life (1973)

Morag Hood: Natasha Rostova

Quotes 

• Natasha Rostova : Did you think they were going to shoot you?

  Pierre Bezukhov : Oh, yes.

  Natasha Rostova : It must have been awful.

  Pierre Bezukhov : Well, it was certainly no entertainment.

• Natasha Rostova : Do you know, Maria, I'm often afraid that by not speaking of Andrei, we may forget him.

• Pierre Bezukhov : Why should he, so full of life, why should he die like that?

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Because God wills it.

  Natasha Rostova : Why? Why should he will such a thing?

  Princess Maria Bolkonskya : Natasha, how can you ask that?

  Natasha Rostova : Well, I do. Why?

  Pierre Bezukhov : Well, who knows? I only know that such losses would be impossible to bear if we didn't believe it.

• Pierre Bezukhov : We cling for dear life to the comforts that we know. And once they are moved out of our customary ruts, we think that all is over for us, but...

  Natasha Rostova : Yes, I know what you mean. It's only then that the good and the new can begin again, isn't it?