It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“MEDVIEDENKO Why do you always wear mourning? MASHA I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“How easy it is, Doctor, to be a philosopher on paper, and how difficult in real life!” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — 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
“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“NINA. Your play is very hard to act; there are no living characters in it. TREPLIEFF. Living characters! Life must be represented… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“everyone; in this life, even in the most desolate backwater, nothing was accidental, everything was filled with one common thought, everything had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective… — 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
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“there are things in life which one can confide in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because of this that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“To live the same family life as his father and forefathers—that is, in the same condition of culture—and to bring up his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Shabelsky: I'd go into the flames of hell, into the jaws of the crocodile, just so as not to stay here. I… — 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
“If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting, it's only they who are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Look at life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, degeneration,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“SONIA: What can we do? We must live our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live through… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that you could not vanquish the ignorant masses around you; little by little, as you advance in life,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, it is not the writer’s job to solve such problems as the existence of God, pessimism, etc. The job… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Her blood is dancing, she wants to live, and there is no life here.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“MASHA : Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often happy.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — 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
![“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life.” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dad/anton-chekhov-298_art_science-and-art-they-seek-the-truth-and_3128148.jpg)
![“SONIA: What can we do? We must live our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live through the long procession of days before us, and through the long evenings; we shall patiently bear the trials that fate imposes on us; we shall work for others without rest, both now and when…” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dda/anton-chekhov-298_beautiful-life_sonia-what-can-we-do-we-must-live-our-li_426820.jpg)
