Anton Chekhov on Death
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov, catalogued under death, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov and filed under "death" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #49663: "Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #169100: "The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
8 Quotes by Anton Chekhov on Death
"Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."
"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
"Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them."
"Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die."
"As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone."
"To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth."
"It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest."
"Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous."