Victor Hugo Quotes
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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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.
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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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.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.