Victor Hugo Quotes
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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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.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.