He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

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

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!