762 Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

Those who are coerced by force become our enemies, those who succumb to reason become our allies.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.