Victor Hugo Quotes
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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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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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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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.
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Another story must begin!
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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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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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.