Anton Chekhov Quotes about Death

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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Anton Chekhov

Life, Death, Forever

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

Anton Chekhov

Death, Lying, Loss

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”