Anton Chekhov on Time
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to Anton Chekhov and filed under "time" 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 #50701: "What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all."
Attributed to Anton Chekhov, entry #91538: "I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, then let it be tobacco."
9 Quotes by Anton Chekhov on Time
"What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all."
"I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, then let it be tobacco."
"It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it."
"I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles."
"Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they’ll find a means to be happy."
"We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: "In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past."
"There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday."
"Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions."
"Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?"