anton-chekhov Quotes About thinking

“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”

Thinking Men Helping Feelings Life Is Consciousness Maturity Traps Thinking Man

Book:Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others

Source: Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others

“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”

People Thinking Men Littles Resources Europe Suicide Western Closeness Little Man Stifling Expanse Western Europe Congestion Spaciousness

Author:Anton Chekhov

“It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

Thinking Writing Persons Soul Matter Form Flow

Author:Anton Chekhov

“If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking May Particular Offers Illness Remedy

Book:Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)

Source: Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)

“The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...”

Thinking Stills Happiness Literature Novel Fine Type Greed Innocence Beast Acquire Happy Endings Bourgeoisie Lulls

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”

Thinking Would Be Difficult Sleep Eternity Deprived

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!”

Ifs Thinking Trying Two Use Light Rooms Wonder Knowing Wife Flower Daughter My Wife Repeats Rough Delicate Two Daughters Rough Drafts

Book:The Three Sisters

Source: The Three Sisters

“You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”

People Thinking I Can Sometimes Given Sleep Lord Honest Fields Huge Ought Infinite Endless Forests Giants Horizon Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep

Book:Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)

Source: Greatest Works of Anton Chekhov: Plays, Short Stories, Novel and A Biography (Including The Steppe, Ward No. 6, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, On Trial, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, After the Theatre and many more)

“What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.”

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Would Be My Own Tears My Heart Good Things Passing Passings If I Could Breasts Oppressed Weary Vague Discontent My Own Life Dissatisfaction

Book:Forty Stories

Source: Forty Stories

“I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.”

Thinking Knows Humans Looks Children Life Is Stars Born Human Beings Our Lives Alive Sky Wind Empty Nonsense Have Faith Cranes Stars In The Sky

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”

Ifs Thinking Way Stills Would Be Tree Wind Died One Way Parts Of Life

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.”

Thinking Should Students Perpetual

Book:The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts

Source: The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts

“I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Would Be Felt Tears My Heart Heavy If I Could Chests Marvellous

Author:Anton Chekhov

“You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.”

Thinking Men Way Years Kind Persons Spirit Millions Taken Sky Fool Understood Mad Thrown Free Spirit Mad Person

Author:Anton Chekhov

“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.”

Thinking Humans Heart Stills Literature Relation Complexes Scary Human Relations

Author:Anton Chekhov

“My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.”

“One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”

Ifs Thinking Stage Loaded Rifles Firing

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Persons Self Done Facts Moving Interest Secret Written Fool Becoming Needed Capable Draws Devil Conclusion Bored Knees Good Writers Likelihood Conceited Trifling

Author:Anton Chekhov

“It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Artist Time Understanding Steps This World Fool Clarity Make Sense Realms Horizon Steps Forward Charlatans

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.”

Thinking Humans Earth Beautiful Purpose Nature Forget Beauty Higher Dignity Purpose Of Life Human Dignity Higher Purpose Creating Beauty

Book:The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.”

Thinking Might Spirit Calling Stones Philosopher Pancakes

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.”

“Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”

Thinking Writing Trying Play Shows Originals Foolish Clever Thinker Not Afraid

Book:Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

Source: Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

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