Victor Hugo Quotes
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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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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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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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
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I was dying when you came.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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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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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
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He who despairs is wrong.