18 quotes
"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
Love
"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other"
- Anton Chekhov
Balance
"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness
"There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday."
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness
"If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry."
- Anton Chekhov
Relationships
"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
- Anton Chekhov
Inspiration
"Don't tell me the Moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass."
- Anton Chekhov
Creativity
"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying."
- Anton Chekhov
Creativity
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
- Anton Chekhov
Creativity
"You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have."
- Anton Chekhov
Creativity
"Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning."
- Anton Chekhov
Learning
"These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank."
- Anton Chekhov
Learning
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
- Anton Chekhov
Learning
"There is nothing new in art except talent."
- Anton Chekhov
Belief in Self
"In nature, a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar."
- Anton Chekhov
Philosophy
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
- Anton Chekhov
Peace
"April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a breath of spring could be felt in the soft, cold air."
- Anton Chekhov
Nature