Quote

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.

Alexandre Dumas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Real
Pleasures
Never
Imaginary
Life
Compare
Sorrow
Forever
Pleasure
Dream
Live
Sorrows

More quotes by Alexandre Dumas

Image
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
Alexandre Dumas
Image
It is only the dead who do not return.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Haste is a poor counselor
Alexandre Dumas
Image
I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Wait and hope!
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
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
Image
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Alexandre Dumas
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
Image
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Image
Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
Alexandre Dumas