Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: “I am doing God’s… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“For a crippled man like me, personal happiness was possible only in dreams.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“If life has any meaning or purpose, you won't find it in happiness, but in something more rational, in something greater.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“There it is — happiness. Here it comes, closer and closer. I can hear its footsteps. And if we never see it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Without solitude true happiness was impossible. The fallen angel was faithless to God probably only because he longed for solitude, which angles… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“It's obvious that the happy man feels contented only because the unhappy ones bear their burden without saying a word: if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Just look at this life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, impossible poverty all… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And I thought how many satisfied, happy people really do exist in this world! And what a powerful force they are! Just… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Obviously the happy man feels good only because the unhappy bear their burden silently, and without that silence happiness would be impossible.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I reflected how many satisfied, happy people there really are! What a suffocating force it is! You look at life: the insolence… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“How many happy, satisfied people there are, after all, I said to myself. What an overwhelming force! Just consider this life--the insolence… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“True happiness is impossible without privacy. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he wanted the privacy denied to an angel.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“MASHA : Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often happy.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
