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
“But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?” — 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
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 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
“This piece of iron which he had been allowed to keep aroused a more profound wave of gratitude towards heaven in his… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you… — 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
“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
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present,… — 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
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. — 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
