Anton Checkov > Quotes

“I look at this life and see the arrogance and the idleness of the strong, the ignorance and bestiality of the weak, the horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, drunkenness, hypocrisy, falsehood. . . . Meanwhile in all the houses, all the streets, there is peace; out of fifty thousand people who live in our town there is not one to kick against it all. Think of the people who go to the market for food: during the day they eat; at night they sleep, talk nonsense, marry, grow old, piously follow their dead to the cemetery; one never sees or hears those who suffer, and all the horror of life goes on somewhere behind the scenes.”
― Anton Checkov

“قال زوج الأخت بعد العشاء: كل شيء في هذا العالم له نهاية. اعلم إذا وقعت في الحب، فسوف تعاني، تخطئ، وتندم، إن تخلصت من الحب، فاعلم أنها ستكون نهاية كل هذا.”
― Anton Checkov

“إن ما نعانيه عندما نكون عاشقين، قد يكون حالة طبيعية. فالعشق يذك المرء كيف يمكن أن يكون.”
― Anton Checkov

“But there is no man with a hammer, and the happy go on living, just a little fluttered with the petty cares of every day, like an aspen-tree in the wind -- and everything is all right.”
― Anton Checkov

“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday, he will give them a bucket of vodka, and they drink and shout Hooray! and lick his boots in their drunkenness. A change to good eating and idleness always fills a Russian with the most preposterous self-conceit.”
― Anton Checkov

“Borkin: What a vision of delight! I come looking for prose and walk slap into poetry! [Sings] 'Thou camest like a bird towards the light.”
― Anton Checkov, Ivanov