Quote

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Anton Chekhov

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
Author
Dramaturge
Journalist
Novelist
Physician
Playwright
Prosaist
Satirist
Writer
Tahanroh
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
Antón Pávlovich Chékhov
Chekhov
Nature
Picks
May
Winter
Look
Fruit
Looks
Appreciate
Bare
Time
Forward
Appreciation
Tree
Trees
Times
Adversity
Learn
Pick

More quotes by Anton Chekhov

Image
Write only of what is important and eternal.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
Anton Chekhov
Image
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
Image
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
Anton Chekhov
Image
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov
Image
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
Anton Chekhov
Image
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Chekhov
Image
It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.
Anton Chekhov
Image
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table what is national is no longer science.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
Anton Chekhov
Image
I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov