When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOV
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
ANTON CHEKHOV