Victor Hugo Quotes
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
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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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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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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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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.
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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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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.