“I'm young, I'm still a student, but I have undergone a great deal! I'm as hungry as the winter, I'm ill, I'm shaken. I'm as poor as a beggar, and where haven't I been — fate has tossed me everywhere! But my soul is always my own; every minute of the day and the night it is filled with unspeakable presentiments. I know that happiness is coming”
Quotes by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.”
“NINAYou've been working too long and too hard, and you've neither the time nor the inclination to realize your own significance. Go ahead and be dissatisfied with yourself, but others see you as great and beautiful.”
“certain formalities. It is a great delight also to seal up a love-letter, and, slowly putting on one's hat and coat, to go softly out of the house and to carry the treasure to the post.”
“let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a pivotal Russian playwright and short-story writer, recognized as one of the foremost literary figures of his time. Born into a modest family, he pursued a career in medic...