The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
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, I am so happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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 expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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 -
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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