Anton Chekhov Quotes
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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.
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.
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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.
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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.
