Quote

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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
Humans
Beauty
Think
Forget
Thinking
Purpose
Life
Nature
Beautiful
Purposes
Earth
Dignity
Human
Except
Everything
Higher

More quotes by Anton Chekhov

Image
Only one who loves can remember so well.
Anton Chekhov
Image
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov
Image
It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
Image
If you wish women to love you be original I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
Anton Chekhov
Image
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Anton Chekhov
Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
Anton Chekhov
Image
When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Anton Chekhov
Image
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
Anton Chekhov
Image
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Write only of what is important and eternal.
Anton Chekhov
Image
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
Anton Chekhov
Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.
Anton Chekhov