Victor Hugo Quotes
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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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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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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.