Chekhov Quotes

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

~ Anton Chekhov

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

~ Anton Chekhov

Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear. For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its consolations along with us on a bus.

~ Francine Prose

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.

~ Anton Chekhov