When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — 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
“The sunlight and the sounds told him that somewhere in this world there is a pure, refined, poetical life. But where was… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear… — 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
“Everything is beautiful in this world…except that we think and do ourselves when we forget our human dignity and the higher aims… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life’s impossible; and that I can’t know, and so I can’t live,"… — 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
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
![“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/i/dad/anton-chekhov-298_art_science-and-art-they-seek-the-truth-and_3128148.jpg)
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