If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — 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
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty. — 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
“The fear of death is an animal passion which must be overcome. Only those who believe in a future life and tremble… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“When real life is wanting one must create an illusion. It is better than nothing.” — 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
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
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: And this whole romance of ours is commonplace and trite: he lost heart, and he lost his way. She came along,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I often think, what if one were to begin life over again, knowing what one is about! If one life, which has… — 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
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
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
“NINA Your life is beautiful. TRIGORIN I see nothing especially lovely about it. [He looks at his watch] Excuse me, I must… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and strong. If I had lived a normal life I might… — 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
“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
“Her blood is dancing, she wants to live, and there is no life here.” — 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
“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
