Life Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

— Alexandre Dumas

“Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life”

— Alexandre Dumas

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

— Alexandre Dumas

“we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

— Alexandre Dumas

“Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.”

— Alexandre Dumas

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

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“How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!”

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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to…

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“But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?”

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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to…

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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

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“This piece of iron which he had been allowed to keep aroused a more profound wave of gratitude towards heaven in his…

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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks.…

— Alexandre Dumas

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the…

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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

“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the…

— Alexandre Dumas

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.…

— Alexandre Dumas

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

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of…

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“Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire,--once again review thy past life…

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“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical ,…

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man…

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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because…

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“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will…

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“It is my duty to watch over your life, madame, and I will watch." "But do you understand the mission you are…

— Alexandre Dumas

“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

“What tender threads do life and death hang”

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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

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“Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?”

— Alexandre Dumas

“Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life,…

— Alexandre Dumas

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He…

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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just…

— Alexandre Dumas