Anton Chekhov Time Quotations

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

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.

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

It's a long time since I drank champagne.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.