A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“If you could only see your face, your gestures! Oh, how tedious your life must be.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning? TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?” — 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
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
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Repeated – and in fact bitter – experience had long taught him that every affair, which at first adds spice and variety… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics']… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative… — 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
“For fifteen years I have been intently studying earthly life. It is true I have not seen the earth nor men, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The leaves did not stir on the trees, cicadas twanged, and the monotonous muffled sound of the sea that rose from below… — 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
“It is true I have not seen the earth nor men, but in your books I have drunk fragrant wine, I have… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“As he was speaking, he kept reminding himself that he was going to a rendezvous and that not a living soul knew… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics'] is quite unintelligible to the vast majority of men, since that majority has never known wealth or the comforts of life; and to despise suffering would mean to…” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8cb/anton-chekhov-298_death_a-doctrine-which-advocates-indifference_452895.jpg)
