Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Alexandre Dumas
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas père
Alexandre Dumas pere
Alexandre Dumas
father
Alexandre Dumas
père
Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
the Elder
Capable
Feeling
Felt
Feelings
Sad
Men
Bliss
Sadness
Despair
Ultimate
More quotes by Alexandre Dumas
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
Alexandre Dumas
That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
Alexandre Dumas
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
Alexandre Dumas
Pain, thou art not an evil
Alexandre Dumas
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
Alexandre Dumas
Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
Alexandre Dumas
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
Alexandre Dumas
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
Alexandre Dumas
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is egotistical.
Alexandre Dumas
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Alexandre Dumas
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Alexandre Dumas
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains he who sees others die loses.
Alexandre Dumas
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
Alexandre Dumas
I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
Alexandre Dumas
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Alexandre Dumas
It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
Alexandre Dumas
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
Alexandre Dumas
Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. In general, people only ask for advice, he said that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.
Alexandre Dumas
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas
