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Anton Chekhov Quotes about Life

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov
Life, Success, Morning

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Anton Chekhov
Inspirational, Life, Illusion
Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3128, e-artnow

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Anton Chekhov
Life, Asking, Carrots

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

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Anton Chekhov
Life, School, Soul

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Anton Chekhov
Life, Pain, Usual
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

Anton Chekhov
Life, Ocean, Men
Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.11, Vintage

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Anton Chekhov
Life, Science, Vegetarianism
"The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

Anton Chekhov
Life, Years, Half

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