Monte Cristo Quotes

“You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Very well,’ said Dantès. ‘Then I, too, shall remain.’ And, standing up and solemnly extending his hand above the old man’s head: ‘I swear by the blood of Christ that I shall not leave you until your death.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“They were sailing under a clear sky in which God too was progressively putting on His lights, each another world.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“The gloomy light, the silence and the awful poetry of night had no doubt combined with the fearful poetry of her conscience: the poisoner was afraid to see her work.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Monte Cristo raised his eyes heavenwards but could not see the heavens: there was a veil of stone between him and the firmament.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“When I asked you if you were consoled, I was speaking to you as a man for whom the human heart holds no secrets. Well, then, Morrel, let us sound the depths of your heart. Is it still that ardent impatience of pain that makes the body leap like a lion bitten by a mosquito? Is it still that raging thirst that can be sated only in the tomb? Is it that ideal notion of regret that launches the living man out of life in pursuit of death? Or is it merely the prostration of exhausted courage, the ennui that stifles the ray of hope as it tries to shine? Is it the loss of memory, bringing an impotence of tears? Oh, my friend, if it is that, if you can no longer weep, if you think your numbed heart is dead, if you have no strength left except in God and no eyes except for heaven – then, my friend, let us put aside words that are too narrow to contain the meanings our soul would give them. Maximilien, you are consoled, pity yourself no longer.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Haydée addressed her with a heartrending expression on her face: ‘How do you expect him to understand me, my sister? He is my master, and I his slave. He has the right to see nothing.’

The count shuddered at the tone of this voice, which awoke the deepest fibres of his being.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo