Time Quotes by Anton Chekhov

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

— Anton Chekhov

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

— Anton Chekhov

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

— Anton Chekhov

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

— Anton Chekhov

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

— Anton Chekhov

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

— Anton Chekhov

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

— Anton Chekhov

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

— Anton Chekhov

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

— Anton Chekhov

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

— Anton Chekhov

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just…

— Anton Chekhov

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be…

— Anton Chekhov

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

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

Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail…

— Anton Chekhov

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up…It's going to blow…

— Anton Chekhov

“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the…

— Anton Chekhov

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in…

— Anton Chekhov

“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a…

— Anton Chekhov

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices,…

— Anton Chekhov

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it…

— Anton Chekhov

“Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always…

— Anton Chekhov

We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting…

— Anton Chekhov

“In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used…

— Anton Chekhov

“At home in Moscow everything was in its winter routine; the stoves were heated, and in the morning it was still dark…

— Anton Chekhov

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!…

— Anton Chekhov

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…

— Anton Chekhov

“I am drunk. I usually only drink like this once a month. At such times my audacity and temerity know no bounds.…

— Anton Chekhov

What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing.…

— Anton Chekhov

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and…

— Anton Chekhov

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

— Anton Chekhov

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

— Anton Chekhov

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the…

— Anton Chekhov

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your…

— Anton Chekhov

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out,…

— Anton Chekhov

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when…

— Anton Chekhov

“Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don't attempt to justify myself. It's not my husband but…

— Anton Chekhov

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle…

— Anton Chekhov

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .…

— Anton Chekhov