When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures o... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"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."
"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."
"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."