The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.
Anton ChekhovThe unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.
Anton ChekhovFor God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
Anton ChekhovThose 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.
Anton ChekhovPeople who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov