💬 Quotes

"Forever is composed of nows."

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me—anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

"I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug."

"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm mind-bogglingly brilliant."

"If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... Come in, for where the sidewalk ends, we’ll dream of the world tonight."

"And some kind of help is the kind of help, That helping's 'bout all you can do."

"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."

"Erik is a living corpse. He is a genius, but a genius cursed by a face that drives men to madness and women to tears."

"I have seen your soul, and it is more beautiful than your voice."

"A rose for a man who is dead, a ring for a man who lives, and a kiss for a man who is both."

"There is a music in the air that only those who have suffered can truly hear."

"Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be some one, like everybody else. But he was too ugly!"

"I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see."

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."

"The difficulty is not so much in being blind as in being unable to bear blindness."

"Fear is a blind man's best friend."

"If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up its consequences, we should never do anything at all."

"Words are like the wind, they come and go, they are not tangible, they are not solid, they are not what they seem."

"If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse."

"By you, I am forever undone."