Quotes by Anton Chekhov

“Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.”

“I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.”

“My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.”

“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.”

“It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”

“A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.”

“The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.”

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