Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
Anton Chekhov
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Possibly
Never
More quotes by Anton Chekhov
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
Anton Chekhov
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Anton Chekhov
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
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
Anton Chekhov
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
Anton Chekhov
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
Anton Chekhov
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
Anton Chekhov
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
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
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
What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?
Anton Chekhov
People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
Anton Chekhov
All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.
Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
Anton Chekhov
I'm in mourning for my life.
Anton Chekhov
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
Anton Chekhov
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Anton Chekhov
Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
Anton Chekhov
