When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — 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
“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. — 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
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
“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
“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals… — 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
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
“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
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 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
“if every one has faith, where did it come from? And then they do say that it all comes from terror at… — 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
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not… — 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
I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already… — 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
“When real life is wanting one must create an illusion. It is better than nothing.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. — 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
“MASHA : Happiness does not depend on riches; poor men are often happy.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. — 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
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