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Anton Chekhov Quotes about Happiness

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Happy, Summer
'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Anton Chekhov
Love, Family, Happiness

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Knowledge, Inner Peace

The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Thinking, Greed
"Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Happy, Responsibility
"Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Frustration, People

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Dream, Lying
Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.951, Delphi Classics

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Men, Doors

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Anton Chekhov
Happiness, Happy, Mean
"Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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