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Anton Chekhov Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“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, About Love and Other Stories
Tagged: Wonders of Nature, Appreciation Of Nature's Beauty, Amusement
“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.”
— Anton Chekhov, A quote by Anton Chekhov
Tagged: Feelings, Experience, Love
“Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.”
— Anton Chekhov
Tagged: Relationship, Attachment
“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, Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov(October 13, 1888)
Tagged: Relationship, Communication, Interaction, Sincerity
“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, Ivanov
Tagged: Judge, Impression, character
“Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?”
— Anton Chekhov, The Bishop
Tagged: Childhood, Time, Joy
“Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.”
— Anton Chekhov, Difficult People
Tagged: Nature, Lie, tense, Moments, Protect
“The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.”
— Anton Chekhov, Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov
Tagged: Question, Life, Simplicity, Relationship
“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.”
— Anton Chekhov, In the Cart
Tagged: Life, Relationship, complex, terrified
“Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.”
— Anton Chekhov, Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
Tagged: Death, Immortality, Life
“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, The Three Sisters
Tagged: Life, Death, Memory, Soul
“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”
— Anton Chekhov, Ward No. 6
Tagged: Life, Trap, Consciousness, maturity, Escape
“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”
— Anton Chekhov, Misfortune
Tagged: Hard Times, Difficulty, Feelings, Thought, Master
“It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.”
— Anton Chekhov, Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
Tagged: Question, clever, solution, Simple
“Everyone has the same God; only people differ.”
— Anton Chekhov, The Duel
Tagged: Belief, God, difference
“Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.”
— Anton Chekhov, Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
Tagged: Desire, mistake, Knowledge
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