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Victor Hugo Quotes: 62

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Les Misérables
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Les Misérables
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Les Misérables
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Les Misérables
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Les Misérables
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Les Misérables
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Les Misérables
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Les Misérables
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Les Misérables
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Les Misérables
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Les Misérables
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
Les Misérables
...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
Les Misérables
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Les Misérables
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
Les Misérables
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Les Misérables
Love is the only future God offers.
Les Misérables
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
Les Misérables
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Les Misérables
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Les Misérables
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
Les Misérables
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Be happy without picking flaws.
Les Misérables
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
Les Misérables
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.
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.
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
Les Misérables
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
Les Misérables
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.
Les Misérables
I see black light (his last words)
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.
The Toilers of the Sea
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
Les Misérables
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Les Misérables
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
Les Misérables - anthology
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
Les Misérables - anthology
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone." "And conscience,"added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us.
Les Misérables
Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.
Les Miserables
À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...]Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.
Les Misérables
Sin is a gravitation.
Les Misérables
Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the same opportunity for a career; politically all consciences having the same right. Equality has an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet.
Les Misérables