Victor Hugo Quotes

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

Victor Hugo

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• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Miracle

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Suffering
  • Sea
  • Picnic

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Suffering
  • Neurosis

• Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Free
  • Purpose

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

  

  Patanjali
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Self

• For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Day
  • Suffering

• Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Me
  • Suffering

• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Miracle

• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Love
  • For Her

• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara Desert says it all It's a miracle. All God's creations great and small, the Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal That's a miracle. Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone It's a miracle.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Great
  • God
  • Small

• I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• The more you love, the more you suffer.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Suffering

• Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children by rescuing them.' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Children
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Men
  • History
  • Free

• There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffering
  • Miracle
  • Burns