No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.