Victor Hugo Quotes
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables.
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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.
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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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 convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.