Quotes of Anton Chekhov

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I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

- Anton Chekhov

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“ She was rain to a parched desert She was color to a gray sky She was the beautiful butterfly you longed to possess But I let her fly For fear of breaking her wings! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ We should have more reasons to smile than to cry. You will be surprised, even the saddest things could result in something to smile about. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch. ”

- Jack Thorne

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. ”

- Rainbow Rowell

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius