If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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 -
Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
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 with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOV






