Victor Hugo Quotes
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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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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La musique...est la vapeur de l’art. Elle est à la poésie ce que la rêverie est à la pensée, ce que le fluide est au liquide, ce que l’océan des nuées est à l’océan des ondes.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.