Victor Hugo Quotes
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
