Anton Chekhov Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wisdom, Past, Saint

• The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

  Anton Chekhov

  Past, Events, Unbroken

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Stars, Eye

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

• Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

  Anton Chekhov

  Past, Usual, Posterity

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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