Anton Chekhov Quotes

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

As long as one suffers one lives.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I work to stay alive.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

The most terrible things end, at last.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

The miseries of the Indonesian people are sandwiched between two thick slabs of bread—one the bread of hope, the other the bread of patience

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'