If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Only entropy comes easy.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
~ Anton Chekhov

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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.
~ Anton Chekhov

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
~ Anton Chekhov

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~ Anton Chekhov

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