All Anton Chekhov Quotes
- ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.… Accepted
- [Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… Absence
- In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time… Everyone
- I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? Always Obey
- Man will become better when you show him what he is like. Become Better
- My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that… Authors
- Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and… Been
- The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. Correctly
- And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. Fallen
- We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of… Accustomed
- The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. Actor
- Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. Age
- The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him… Both
- Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that… Dead
- He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like… Accidental
- He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom… Afterwards
- When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands… Background
- There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries.… All
- Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or… Age
- Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep,… April
- And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the… Alive
- The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. Conception
- If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work. Good
- What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. Choose
- If you want to work on your art, work on your life. Art