The Cherry Orchard Quotes

The Cherry Orchard is a play by Anton Chekhov. The work first appeared on stage in 1904. A family experiences the loss of their estate and their cherry orchard. Here are a few quotes from The Cherry Orchard.

• "You are too refined.you should remember your place."
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• "My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die."
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• "In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say."
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• "Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work."
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• "All you ancestors were serf owners, owners of living souls. Do not human spirits look out at you from every leaf and stem?"
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• "A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat."
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• "You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes."
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• "My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it."
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• "What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!"
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• "Life has gone by as if I never lived"
  - Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard