Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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 -
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
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 -
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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 -
The 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.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOV