Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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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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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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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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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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Aimer, c'est agir
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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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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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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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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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.