Victor Hugo Quotes
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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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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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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By making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?