Victor Hugo Quotes
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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Right is right only when entire.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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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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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Love is a fault; so be it.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?