Anton Chekhov

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Anton Chekhov

Flies purify the air, and plays – the morals.

Anton Chekhov

Going to see plays isn’t what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

Anton Chekhov

Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Anton Chekhov

Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!

Anton Chekhov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Anton Chekhov

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

I am doing God’s will on earth.

Anton Chekhov

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

Anton Chekhov

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

Anton Chekhov