Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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 -
Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOV -
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
ANTON CHEKHOV