Victor Hugo Quotes
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.