Victor Hugo Quotes
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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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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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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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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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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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I see black light (his last words).
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.