Quotes from Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

The air of ones native country is the most healthy air.

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Its immoral to steal, but you can take things.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Biron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

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.