Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!

Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?