Victor Hugo Quotes
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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Emotion is always new.
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"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed, – "The love of a damned soul.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
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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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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.