All human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope'.Edmond Dantès
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.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.Edmond Dantès
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.Abbé Faria
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.Alexandre Dumas
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.Alexandre Dumas
So, preferring death to captivity, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.Edmond Dantès
My first sentiment was horror, the second indifference, the third curiosity.Edmond Dantès
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.Edmond Dantès
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.Alexandre Dumas
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.Edmond Dantès
The friends we have lost do not rest in the earth, they are buried in our hearts.Alexandre Dumas
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