Anton Chekhov Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Butterfly, Lovely

• Brevity - the sister of talent.

  Anton Chekhov

  Talent, Human Nature, Brevity

  Letter to Alexander Chekhov, 11 Apr. 1889

• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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