He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.


Gaston Leroux

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold m...
PHILIP REEVE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
He would have liked his own funeral if he could have seen it. It was small and quiet, and really not...
PETER S. BEAGLE
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands W...
OSCAR WILDE
Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved h...
CASSANDRA CLARE
The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dea...
DAVID LETTERMAN
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL
He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a grass-green turf,
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone el...
ELIE WIESEL
Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because...
DEAN KOONTZ
Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we a...
IRVIN D. YALOM
A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed, As if ...
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Elvis was sincere, and he was - he was so loyal. And he was so homespun. He loved his mother, he lov...
LINDA THOMPSON
As he was gasping for air he realized something. He was in deep shit. Haley was his life now. His wo...
R.L. MATHEWSON
I looked into his eyes and he looked into mine. They were very dark, empty, unfeeling and cold. I fe...
ANNETTE BROWN
Lucas crept around the building to the back parking lot. And there it was, just like he had seen fro...
PAUL AERTKER
Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE
Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE
As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE
I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE
These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE
The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE
They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG
This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI
The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI
They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI
We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI
Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG
This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG
I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG
The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG
The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN
The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN
Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI
Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI
And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his t...
CORNELIA FUNKE
There was some leeway to (the ground). Had he been on cement or hard ground, he would be dead.
DEPUTY RYAN VORHIES
Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who i...
ERICH VON STROHEIM
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
....Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing; for he did not know what to do, he ...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...
D.H. LAWRENCE
When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them;...
BIBLE
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street...
JUDITH VIORST
Whether he is alive or dead almost doesn't matter because he has become a symbolic figure, rather th...
RICHARD CLARKE
He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhy...
ANGELA MORRISON
When he first got down there, he was 'The Golden Child.' Everyone loved him, ... He had his whole fa...
JAMIE SHARPER
And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had t...
C. JOYBELL C.
She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someon...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
Generous tears filled Gabriel's eyes. He had never felt like that himself towards any woman, but he ...
JAMES JOYCE
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after t...
LEV GROSSMAN
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that...
CONRAD AIKEN
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated...
GERMAINE GREER
I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in ...
J.K. ROWLING
The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassi...
KARL OVE KNAUSGåRD
There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he kn...
MICKEY HART
He was an incredibly handsome guy. He could have had any woman, and he comes back and feels like now...
DR. HARRIET ZEINER
He cared a tremendous amount for his players. He had a really big heart. He loved this town and univ...
ALAN MEEK
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
JOHN GREEN
She was his angel, and he was her angel.
CAROLYN LAYNE
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...
P.D. JAMES
It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON
One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is h...
GRAHAM GREENE
He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when...
TAHEREH MAFI
The first time I held him, he was in a Christmas stocking. Brad's an angel. He came at Christmas and...
BRIAN ROWE
Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own livin...
J.K. ROWLING
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal ...
R. D. LAING
He loved (radio personalities) Bob and Tom, he loved his truck, he loved racing and he loved being w...
JIM O'HARA
What happened?” Albert asked.
Taylor looked at Sam. Sam said nothing. He stared. First at his...
MICHAEL GRANT
The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a...
MICHAEL GRANT
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the de...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER
Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh...
JEFF HILL
Hopefully he is still alive, or his pecker is un-dead.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS
Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow betwe...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
They both had a broken heart, but she turned out to be cold hearted, he didn't lose hope because tha...
DAVID BENTO GUERRA
The Bear and the Fox A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was...
AESOP
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adore...
GASTON LEROUX
By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to ...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a pri...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she c...
GRACE WILLOWS
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
P.G. WODEHOUSE
And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live,...
GEORGE ARNOLD
Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.
CATHERINE MCCORMACK
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.
BIBLE
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
BOB EDWARDS
He had more velocity on his fastball, his changeup was slower, and he had sharper breaking stuff, .....
TODD PRATT
'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent...
GEORGE ARNOLD
He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.
DAVID SMITH
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had h...
MARK TWAIN
Everything- everything was for Dorian, for his friend. For himself, he had nothing left to lose. He ...
SARAH J. MAAS
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead th...
MARQUIS DE SADE
He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing mo...
AMY LICHTENHAN
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

More Gaston Leroux

They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts ...
GASTON LEROUX
Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of bein...
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
While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would...
GASTON LEROUX
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adore...
GASTON LEROUX
Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he...
GASTON LEROUX
No, of course not.... Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love o...
GASTON LEROUX
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa...
GASTON LEROUX
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-...
GASTON LEROUX
Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.
GASTON LEROUX
why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself...
GASTON LEROUX
When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.
GASTON LEROUX
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like every...
GASTON LEROUX
Our lives are one masked ball.
GASTON LEROUX
But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?
GASTON LEROUX
And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow ...
GASTON LEROUX
Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest
GASTON LEROUX
He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ...
GASTON LEROUX
I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A...
GASTON LEROUX
She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
GASTON LEROUX
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies ...
GASTON LEROUX
Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her ou...
GASTON LEROUX
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so...
GASTON LEROUX
Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
GASTON LEROUX
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and ...
GASTON LEROUX
Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: ...
GASTON LEROUX
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All...
GASTON LEROUX
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Op...
GASTON LEROUX
Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am ...
GASTON LEROUX
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to conte...
GASTON LEROUX
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like ever...
GASTON LEROUX
I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not...
GASTON LEROUX
All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)
GASTON LEROUX
Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of t...
GASTON LEROUX
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because yo...
GASTON LEROUX
At first I was a little afraid, but now I'm comfortable with it.
BEAU LEROUX
We need to think globally and act locally.
GEORGE LEROUX
All art is a confession.
GASTON LACHAISE
Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Pla...
GASTON CAPERTON
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness ...
GASTON CAPERTON
It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor...
GASTON CAPERTON
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world eve...
GASTON BACHELARD
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, ope...
GASTON BACHELARD
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
GASTON BACHELARD
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARD
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears th...
GASTON BACHELARD
When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARD
I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one ...
GASTON BACHELARD
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no lon...
GASTON BACHELARD
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh...
GASTON BACHELARD
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in...
GASTON BACHELARD
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARD
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
GASTON BACHELARD
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To rema...
GASTON BACHELARD
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. ...
GASTON BACHELARD
The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARD
There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARD
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARD
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreamin...
GASTON BACHELARD
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARD
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
GASTON BACHELARD
Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARD
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one ...
GASTON BACHELARD
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very s...
GASTON BACHELARD
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul...
GASTON BACHELARD
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
GASTON BACHELARD
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whic...
GASTON BACHELARD
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whi...
GASTON BACHELARD
That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can ...
GASTON CAPERTON
The team has been doing everything right mentally and physically, so now we just have to hope that w...
ANDREA GASTON
The course was not as difficult today. We need to bring our fourth and fifth scores down and see wha...
ANDREA GASTON
We have to continue to grind and never take a position for granted. Irene (Cho) has done a tremendou...
ANDREA GASTON
We were able to work on both our strengths and weaknesses, and it's encouraging to see that. The rea...
ANDREA GASTON
She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.
ANDREA GASTON
We were the top-ranked team; it's nice to win the tournament. It's exciting to finish the regular se...
ANDREA GASTON
The course played hard and they let the rough grow very long. We lost a lot of strokes on that hole ...
ANDREA GASTON
In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakene...
GASTON LACHAISE
The media would have exposed it, and the fans would have eaten him alive, ... I just decided that wa...
BOBBY GASTON
The fans would have eaten him alive. I just decided that was not a fair thing for him. He's a great ...
BOBBY GASTON
The media would have exposed it, and the fans would have eaten him alive. I just decided that was no...
BOBBY GASTON
We got it right. That's what it's all about.
BOBBY GASTON
Well, we emphasize that you call it when it occurs at the point of attack and if it has a bearing on...
BOBBY GASTON
Well, we emphasize that you call it when it occurs at the point of attack and if it has a bearing on...
BOBBY GASTON
We're walking on uncharted waters,
BOBBY GASTON
[I posed this question yesterday to Bobby Gaston , the Southeastern Conference Supervisor of Officia...
BOBBY GASTON
Actually, our goal is to have no plays overturned by instant replay.
BOBBY GASTON
The rule said 'He must intentionally use his helmet to spear,' and we felt like it's hard to find an...
BOBBY GASTON
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARD
We're back to planning for a strike. We're disappointed. That almost goes without saying. We're stri...
CHERYL GASTON
Florida Crystals was searching for an agency that could provide a fully integrated campaign.
GASTON CANTENS
I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the gr...
GASTON BACHELARD
I didn't know Garcia-Lopez that well,
GASTON GAUDIO
We could have passed a hat around the stadium and gotten our money back (to pay for the cost of repl...
BOBBY GASTON
If we'd passed a hat around the stadium we would have gotten our money back.
BOBBY GASTON
We're going to start growing sugar cane over there.
GASTON CANTENS
I played really well during the first set. I think he was a little tired, he seemed asleep. So I too...
GASTON GAUDIO
I came here to see if I could win some points and now I'm in the final. Tomorrow's another match and...
GASTON GAUDIO
For me, it would be better if I can reach a few rounds or if I can win a couple of rounds here to ge...
GASTON GAUDIO
I was expecting to make a better tournament here, but I play a guy that today was better than me. It...
GASTON GAUDIO
I think it all went with the first set. Losing a tiebreak like that is painful, ... It affected me m...
GASTON GAUDIO
And then from the baseline, he was playing pretty well too. So serving well and playing well from th...
GASTON GAUDIO
Our capacity to compete in a knowledge-based economy is going to depend on our ability to offer the ...
GASTON CAPERTON
How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give ima...
GASTON BACHELARD
We have deserving students who are kept out of college or have difficulty completing their degrees b...
GASTON CAPERTON
Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and...
GASTON BACHELARD
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely reveal...
GASTON BACHELARD
It was a very good match, I played very well during the first set. He seemed tired or asleep or some...
GASTON GAUDIO
He was actually too good. I played a great first set and then he was playing much better than me.
GASTON GAUDIO
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...
GASTON BACHELARD
A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true...
GASTON BACHELARD
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ...
GASTON BACHELARD
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marv...
GASTON BACHELARD
I think all of the guys have been talking about getting a big win and Florida would be a really good...
COLT GASTON
I think South Carolina would love to beat us and improve their ranking. Beating us would help them o...
COLT GASTON
The Texas A&M match was a close one for us. I think everybody would rather start over and finish the...
COLT GASTON
I remember he wore us out. He made some great, great catches on us. We're going to miss him. His fam...
CITO GASTON
I remember he wore us out. He made some great, great catches on us.
CITO GASTON
He was serving pretty well today,
GASTON GAUDIO
I was expecting to make a better tournament here, but I play a guy that today was better than me, .....
GASTON GAUDIO
I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match.
GASTON GAUDIO
He was better than me today. I didn't do anything.
GASTON GAUDIO
Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placeme...
GASTON CAPERTON
Affordability is essential to opportunity,
GASTON CAPERTON
[The declining role of grants, which students do not need to pay back,] concerns all of us, ... Affo...
GASTON CAPERTON
The growth accomplishes a parallel increase in students taking demanding courses such as pre-algebra...
GASTON CAPERTON
Although there are more students from low-income families with college aspirations and more first-ge...
GASTON CAPERTON
That's the value of a college education, ... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make a...
GASTON CAPERTON
It's unfair to those kids who don't get to take those good courses and don't get the chance to go to...
GASTON CAPERTON
It's a concept that makes sense and would be very beneficial to the communities on the lake.
GASTON CANTENS
You've got candidates that have in the past been certainly supportive of some of the issues that the...
GASTON CANTENS
They would love to see nothing more than having homes out there.
GASTON CANTENS
You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,
JAMES GASTON
There's no doubt that this project is needed, ... But if you want more money for the air conditionin...
JAMES GASTON
We must grieve his passing, thank God for his life, and celebrate it. ... This is the end of a chapt...
JAMES GASTON
He died preparing to serve others,
JAMES GASTON
Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new dayd...
GASTON BACHELARD
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce...
PETER DE GASTON LEVIS