Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“For hearts which have long suffered, happiness is like dew on soil parched by the sun: both heart and earth absorb this… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you." "That's exactly what worries… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
