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.
Gaston Leroux
Related Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Op... GASTON LEROUX Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own ... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own bea... JALAL AD-DIN RUMI But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine? GASTON LEROUX Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac... GASTON LEROUX I don't want another pretty face I don't want just anyone to hold I don't want my love to ... JESSE MCCARTNEY Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!' Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre... P.C. CAST Star light, Star bright First star I see tonight… I whispered your name to a star ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Star light, Star bright I wish upon the stars tonight… I whispered your name to a ... N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN Hear my soul speaks: The very instant that I saw you did My heart fly to your service, th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire." "And you are addres... SARAH BETH DURST I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now. -... SUSAN KAY Now take my hand and hold it tight. I will not fail you here tonight, For failing you, I f... DEAN KOONTZ You are the night." "I am the night," I repeated. "You are the night." I cocked my he... MOLLY HARPER Love is when unknowingly I am moving to a world of no return, Where my desire and your fragrance tog... SEEMA GUPTA So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liv... JOHN MILTON I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? RAINER MARIA RILKE I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is ... HEATHER ALEXANDER I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, steal... KAMAND KOJOURI I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,... E.E. CUMMINGS I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are... PABLO NERUDA Promise me one thing wild child, Never filter your soul to suit a mould. NIKKI ROWE Niko? I have decided to christen this little pool Le Cagot's Soul." "Oh?" "Yes. Because it... TREVANIAN A Woman's Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by t... JOSHUA HARRIS I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wea... KAMAND KOJOURI You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your p... RUMI (What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is al... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds." "Um..... ILONA ANDREWS Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My body weeps to live when you make me believe that someday I will be dead soul slee... MUNIA KHAN Should have taken warning it's just People mourning Running, hiding, lost You can't f... CY CURNIN THE FIXX Gestalt Prayer I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to... FREDERICK SALOMON PERLS Sleep like you can never be dead Dream as if you have a soul inside your head MUNIA KHAN did you think i was a city big enough for a weekend getaway i am the town surrounding it RUPI KAUR I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed ... OSHO What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. SYLVIA PLATH Demon pox, oh, demon pox, Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of t... CASSANDRA CLARE In my perception and self - awareness of life, I see the big picture ~ I see my self ~ the place of ... ANGIE KARAN I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a har... PETER S. BEAGLE What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you r... SøREN KIERKEGAARD Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take RICHARD LOVELACE There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shar... RACHEL COHN CALL YOURSELF Look deep in the mirror And say: 'I LOVE YOU' And immediately SUZY KASSEM Ill see you forever For you are a part of me And I myself a part of thee Inseparable i... DAVID SEVERY Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of t... GASTON LEROUX I sent my soul through the invisible, some letter of that afterlife to spell; and by and by ... OMAR KHAYYAM I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; ... KAHLIL GIBRAN I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured d... HEINRICH HEINE This is beautiful," I said, ignoring the shop window to trace the gleaming stone walls fronting anot... JUSTINA CHEN I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've l... NICHOLAS SPARKS my poetry is merely a body. you are the soul in my words. SANOBER KHAN Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes. Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ... JOSé N. HARRIS Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fea... SARA TEASDALE I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by an... OMAR KHAYYáM May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are me... TERESA OF ÁVILA Hush a-bye my little bird Hush a-bye my child I have lost a love so great Oh... KELLY CREAGH It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?” “You have a lot to learn about the world, b... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Farsi Couplet: Mun tu shudam tu mun shudi,mun tun shudam tu jaan shudi Taakas na guyad baa... AMIR KHUSRAU Love Song How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul?... RAINER MARIA RILKE To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead. CASSANDRA CLARE One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I HENRY ROLLINS People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i... ELIZABETH GILBERT The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you. PABLO NERUDA Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for e... PABLO NERUDA By loving you, I learn everything because your soul contains the entire universe. KAMAND KOJOURI I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied. You try ... ELVIS COSTELLO Soothing the exhaustion In my soul, So I can fall back skyward, Safe in your arms, SCOTT HASTIE You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the ... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH HARRY: “The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great ca... JACK THORNE If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care. E.A. BUCCHIANERI Hey, I'm going to Super Dog for a quick bite and to pass along a message from a dead guy to his girl... DARYNDA JONES A Gift for You I send you... The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the p... S.A.R.K. The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clu... FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen... RICHARD LLEWELLYN The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treas... KAHLIL GIBRAN Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother wa... J.R. WARD Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE "The Lesson": Yes, my fretting, Frowning child, I could cross The room to y... CAROL LYNN PEARSON Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my va... KAHLIL GIBRAN Soul Alone by Hannah Baker I meet your eyes you don't even see me You hardly re... JAY ASHER Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm, But for... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boy who asked where I live. His unwas... ALEX DIMITROV Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining thr... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Jerusalem! My Love,My Town I wept until my tears were dry I prayed until the candles... نزار قباني Autumn has come and reason has gone. Yesterday, I sold the sun for you and tonight... KAMAND KOJOURI Love, the exotic bird, came and went. Heart forgot love. Joy, the majestic willow, <... KAMAND KOJOURI BEATRICE Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fai... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your half empty.. A broken glass, I love you can sound so beautiful BRITTANY WILLIAMS I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and sing... KAMAND KOJOURI Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. PABLO NERUDA Demon pox, oh demon pox Just how is it acquired? One must go down to the bad part of town<... CASSANDRA CLARE I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of ... PABLO NERUDA oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be... NIKKI ROWE No! I don’t love you! I just like you, a little. Your lips are sweet, an... ZORICA SAVRON Where are you and I'm so sorry I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight I need somebody and al... BLINK 182 What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a da... SANHITA BARUAH Everyday, in the afternoon, When the sun and the clouds are in equipoise, I look up, with ... RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side FRED E. WEATHERLY You are not your pain. You are not your choices, either good or bad. You are not your body... CATHERINE CARRIGAN
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