“Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of… — 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
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical ,… — 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
“Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire,--once again review thy past life… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It is my duty to watch over your life, madame, and I will watch." "But do you understand the mission you are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my… — 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
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
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 Image
