Alexandre Dumas Quotes

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

Alexandre Dumas

• Sorrow
• Poet
• Instinct
• Sufferer

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Yourself

• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

  

  John Madden
  • Teacher

• I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Play
  • Stills

• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Consequences

• We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Conversation
  • Proposals

• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Life
  • World
  • Lost

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Team
  • Difficult

• You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Heaven

• I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

  

  John Lilly
  • Mistake
  • Program
  • Errors

• You can't win them all but you can try.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Win
  • Attempt

• Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • History
  • Way

• I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Money
  • Insurance
  • Mortgage

• Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Story
  • Believing

• The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Principles
  • Return
  • Streams

• There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Sorrow
  • Poet
  • Instinct