--- title: "18 Years Quotes By Anton Chekhov" description: "18 Years quotes by Anton Chekhov. Plus more from Anton Chekhov and more Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/anton-chekhov-298_death_death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no_1640432.jpg" --- > [Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no-need-to-eat-drink-pay-taxes/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/anton-chekhov-298_death_death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no_1640432.jpg) > [Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/every-coming-year-is-as-bad-as-the-previous-one-the-only-difference/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/anton-chekhov-298_cases_every-coming-year-is-as-bad-as-the-previ_689705.jpg) > [Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/dear-and-most-respected-bookcase-i-welcome-your-existence-which-has/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4f/anton-chekhov-298_bookcases_dear-and-most-respected-bookcase-i-welco_1838166.jpg) > [Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/those-who-come-a-hundred-or-two-hundred-years-after-us-will-despise/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/anton-chekhov-298_despise_those-who-come-a-hundred-or-two-hundred_2795600.jpg) > [Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/oh-dreams-in-one-night-lying-with-one-s-eyes-shut-one-may-sometimes/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a6/anton-chekhov-298_dream_oh-dreams-in-one-night-lying-with-one-s_1872776.jpg) > [Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/capital-punishment-kills-immediately-whereas-lifetime-imprisonment/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb4/anton-chekhov-298_capital-punishment_capital-punishment-kills-immediately-whe_112362.jpg) > [An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/an-actress-without-talent-forty-years-old-ate-a-partridge-for-dinner/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ac/anton-chekhov-298_actresses_an-actress-without-talent-forty-years-ol_2896665.jpg) > [After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/after-us-they-ll-fly-in-hot-air-balloons-coat-styles-will-change/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d3/anton-chekhov-298_afraid-of-death_after-us-they-ll-fly-in-hot-air-balloons_789757.jpg) > [Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-chekhov-saying-to-him-in-1899/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg) > [In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-two-or-three-hundred-years-life-on-earth-will-be-unimaginably/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/anton-chekhov-298_achieve_in-two-or-three-hundred-years-life-on-ea_106636.jpg) > [ \[In\] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/in-death-at-least-there-would-be-one-profit-it-would-no-longer-be/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/anton-chekhov-298_death_in-death-at-least-there-would-be-one-pro_312957.jpg) > [You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/you-don-t-understand-you-fool-says-yegor-looking-dreamily-up-at-the/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4d/anton-chekhov-298_fool_you-don-t-understand-you-fool-says-yegor_605437.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/the-time-s-come-there-s-a-terrific-thunder-cloud-advancing-upon-us-a/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/anton-chekhov-298_advancing_the-time-s-come-there-s-a-terrific-thund_1830165.jpg) > [Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/not-only-after-two-or-three-centuries-but-in-a-million-years-life/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/anton-chekhov-298_bird_not-only-after-two-or-three-centuries-bu_390520.jpg) > [We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/we-are-accustomed-to-live-in-hopes-of-good-weather-a-good-harvest-a/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc9/anton-chekhov-298_affair_we-are-accustomed-to-live-in-hopes-of-go_1581102.jpg) > [This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/this-man-who-for-twenty-five-years-has-been-reading-and-writing-about/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/anton-chekhov-298_art_this-man-who-for-twenty-five-years-has-b_68014.jpg) > [But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/but-at-the-same-time-in-reality-what-a-difference-there-is-between/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/anton-chekhov-298_clumsy_but-at-the-same-time-in-reality-what-a-d_122641.jpg) > [I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/i-ve-been-reading-reviews-of-my-stories-for-twenty-five-years-and-can/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/anton-chekhov-298_advice_i-ve-been-reading-reviews-of-my-stories_1018256.jpg) ## Other authors on Years ## More by Anton Chekhov > [“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/using-vile-means-to-attain-worthy-ends-makes-the-ends-themselves-vile/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/if-ever-my-life-can-be-of-any-use-to-you-come-and-claim-it/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/there-are-still-many-more-days-of-failure-ahead-whole-seasons-of/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/but-here-was-all-the-timorousness-and-angularity-of-inexperienced/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/at-the-water-s-edge-barrels-of-pitch-blazed-like-huge-bonfires-their/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/anna-petrovna-never-talk-to-women-about-your-own-good-qualities-let/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/while-you-re-playing-cards-with-a-regular-guy-or-having-a-bite-to-eat/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/lebedev-france-has-a-clear-and-defined-policy-the-french-know-what/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/my-holy-of-holies-are-the-human-body-health-intelligence-talent/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/what-we-have-we-do-not-treasure-and-what-s-more-we-do-not-even-love-it/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/no-matter-how-corrupt-and-unjust-a-convict-may-be-he-loves-fairness/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/it-is-my-opinion-that-every-woman-can-be-a-writer/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/his-reading-suggested-a-man-swimming-in-the-sea-among-the-wreckage-of/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/experience-often-repeated-truly-bitter-experience-had-taught-him-long/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) > [“Why do you always wear black?” "I am mourning for my life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/why-do-you-always-wear-black-i-am-mourning-for-my-life/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years/anton-chekhov/#itemlist", "name": "18 Years Quotes By Anton Chekhov", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no-need-to-eat-drink-pay-taxes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/anton-chekhov-298_death_death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no_1640432.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/anton-chekhov-298_death_death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no_1640432.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74e/anton-chekhov-298_death_death-can-only-be-profitable-there-s-no_1640432.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/every-coming-year-is-as-bad-as-the-previous-one-the-only-difference/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/anton-chekhov-298_cases_every-coming-year-is-as-bad-as-the-previ_689705.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/anton-chekhov-298_cases_every-coming-year-is-as-bad-as-the-previ_689705.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/anton-chekhov-298_cases_every-coming-year-is-as-bad-as-the-previ_689705.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dear and most respected bookcase! 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Seven.\" \"Why seven?\" Bunin asked. \"Well,\" Chekhov answered, \"seven and a half then.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-chekhov-saying-to-him-in-1899/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/anton-chekhov-298_chekhov_do-you-know-ivan-bunin-recalls-anton-che_1708016.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do you know,\" Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. 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We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. 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