Frases de Antón Chéjov

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“Los infelices son egoístas, injustos, crueles e incapaces de comprender al otro. Los infelices no unen a las personas, las separan.”

“La felicidad no existe. Lo único que existe es el deseo de ser feliz.”

“El gobierno no es Dios. No tiene derecho a quitar lo que no puede regresar.”

“No hay nada más terrible, insultante y deprimente que la banalidad.”

“Si realmente reflexionas, todo es maravilloso en este mundo, todo, excepto nuestros pensamientos y acciones cuando nos olvidamos de reflexionar.”

“A la gente le encanta hablar de sus enfermedades, a pesar de que son las cosas menos interesantes de sus vidas.”

“Hay algo hermoso, poético y conmovedor cuando una persona ama más que el otro, y el otro es indiferente.”

“La fe es una aptitud del espíritu. Es, de hecho, un talento: se tiene que nacer con ella.”

“Cuando pienso en mi vocación no temo a la vida.”

“Si lo que uno hace desagrada a otro, eso no significa que la acción sea mala. Así son las cosas. Cualquier paso serio de uno debe desagradar forzosamente a algún otro. Si tú fueras a combatir por la libertad, también esto haría sufrir a tu madre ¡Qué le vamos a hacer! Quien coloca por encima de todo la tranquilidad de sus allegados debe renunciar por completo a una vida guiada por las ideas.”

“El mar no tiene ni sentido ni piedad.”

“Es fácil conquistar al que piensa que está conquistado.”

“Los hipócritas pretenden ser palomas, políticos, literarios, águilas… Pero no se deje engañar por su apariencia, no son águilas, son ratas.”

“Cualquiera que sea el tema de la conversación, un viejo soldado hablará siempre de guerra.”

“El arte de escribir consiste en decir mucho con pocas palabras.”

“Hay que hablar de cosas serias en serio.”

“Los hombres inteligentes quieren aprender; los demás, enseñar.”

“Del mismo modo que estaré solo en mi tumba, vivo esencialmente solo.”

“El amor es un escándalo de tipo personal.”

“Encontraremos paz. Escucharemos ángeles. Veremos el cielo centelleando con diamantes.”

“He observado que después del matrimonio las personas dejan de ser curiosas.”

“La obras de arte se dividen en dos categorías: las que me gustan y las que no me gustan. No conozco ningún otro criterio.”

“Aislarse en el trabajo creativo es mejor que las críticas negativas que no hacen nada en absoluto.”

“Confieso que enterrar a gente como Belikov constituye un gran placer.”

“Cuando se sugieren muchos remedios para un solo mal, quiere decir que no se puede curar.”

“El hombre vulgar espera lo bueno o lo malo del exterior, el hombre que piensa lo espera de sí mismo.”

“El mundo no perece por los bandidos y los incendios, sino por el odio, la hostilidad, y todas estas pequeñas rencillas.”

“El que nada constantemente en el mar ama la tierra firme.”

“En la naturaleza, una repugnante oruga se transforma en una mariposa encantadora; en cambio, entre los hombres ocurre lo contrario: una encantadora mariposa se transforma en una oruga repugnante.”

“Es algo malo para el escritor asumir lo que no entiende.”

“La brevedad es la hermana del talento.”

“La literatura es mi esposa legítima y la medicina mi amante. Cuando me canso de una, paso la noche con la otra.”

“Las personas que viven solas siempre tienen algo en sus mentes que comparten voluntariamente.”

“Más vale un canario perverso que un piadoso lobo.”

“No puede ser hermoso lo que es grave.”

“La medicina es mi esposa y la literatura mi amante. Cuando me canso de una, paso la noche con la otra. Y sé que es desordenado, pero no es aburrido, y ninguna de ellas pierde nada por mi infidelidad.”

“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”

“Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.”

“It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.”

“An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.”

“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”

“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”

“It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.”

“People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.”

“I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.”

“That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.”

“The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them…”

“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.”

“If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.”

“I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.”

“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”

“You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.”

“Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.”

“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”

“We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.”

“A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.”

“Pesotsky had an immense house with columns and lions, off which the stucco was peeling, and with a footman in swallow-tails at the entrance. The old park, laid out in the English style, gloomy and severe, stretched for almost three-quarters of a mile to the river, and there ended in a steep, precipitous clay bank, where pines grew with bare roots that looked like shaggy paws; the water shone below with an unfriendly gleam, and the peewits flew up with a plaintive cry, and there one always felt that one must sit down and write a ballad.”

“Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.”

“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”

“It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.”

“When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses—that is science.”

“Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.”

“Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.”

“There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.”

“They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.”