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

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.
~ Alexandre Dumas ~












More Alexandre Dumas quotes
"Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
"My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
"we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.
"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.
"So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of ou...
"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for th...
"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed...
"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh a...
"Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven ...
"Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.
"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he se...