Gaston Leroux Quotes

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”

“I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears… and she did not run away!… and she did not die!… She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.”

“Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest”

“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”

“I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!”

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

“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”

“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.”

“Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”

“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.”

“Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.”

“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”

“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.”

“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.”

“Blood!… Blood!… That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”

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

“Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!”

“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”

“Our lives are one masked ball.”

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

“… the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a
trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!”

“No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.”