Memorable Quotes and quotations from Victor HugoVictor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885)Victor Hugo - Les Miserables - Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. Victor Hugo - - The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo - - 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. Victor Hugo - - A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo - - A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour. Victor Hugo - - Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables, 1862 - There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo - - If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables - Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13 - Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. Victor Hugo - - What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! Victor Hugo - - A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13 - Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. Victor Hugo - - Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables - Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. Victor Hugo - - Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo - - He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. Victor Hugo - - The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo - - The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables, 1862 - There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo - - The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo - - Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo - "Les Miserables" - The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables - To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo - - What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness." |
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