Death Quote by Alexandre Dumas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”

“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.”

“And so we weep for the fallen. We weep for those yet to fall, and in war the screams are loud and harsh and in peace the wail is so drawn-out we tell ourselves we hear nothing.”

“The wretch, concentred all in self,”

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”

“Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.”