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VICTOR HUGO Quotes



"A doll is a small edition of a human being." ~Victor Hugo

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"A library implies an act of faith." ~Victor Hugo

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." ~ Victor Hugo

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them" ~Victor Hugo

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." ~Victor Hugo

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." 
~Victor Hugo

"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." ~Victor Hugo

"Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings." ~Victor Hugo

"Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do." ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Be like the bird, who halting his flight on limb too slight feels it gives way beneath him, yet, sings knowing he hath wings." ~Victor Hugo

"Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!" ~Victor Hugo

"Books are cold and certain friends." ~Victor Hugo

"Change your opinions,
Keep to your principles;
Change your leaves,
Keep intact your roots."
~Victor Hugo

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” ~Victor Hugo

"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery." ~Victor Hugo

"Do not let it be your aim to be something but to be someone." ~Victor Hugo

"Do you know what friendship is ... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand." ~Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)


"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise." ~Victor Hugo

"Forty is the old age of youth; Fifty is the youth of old age." ~Victor Hugo

"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. God is awake." ~Victor Hugo

"He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends." ~Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” ~Victor Hugo

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life." ~Victor Hugo

"It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live." ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables


"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." ~Victor Hugo

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." ~Victor Hugo

"Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another." ~Victor Hugo

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.” ~Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." ~Victor Hugo

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.” ~Victor Hugo

"Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it." ~Victor Hugo

"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness." ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!” ~from "Les Misérables", Victor Hugo

"The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep." ~Victor Hugo , The Vanished City

“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.” ~Victor Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves." ~Victor Hugo

"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness." ~Victor Hugo

"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." ~Victor Hugo

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." ~Victor Hugo

"The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor." ~Victor Hugo 

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." ~Victor Hug

"The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope." ~Victor Hugo

"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees." ~Victor Hugo

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (1862)

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." ~Victor Hugo

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come." ~Victor Hugo

"To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation." ~Victor Hugo

"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live." ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." ~Victor Hugo

"To love beauty is to see light." ~Victor Hugo

"To love another person is to see the face of God." ~Victor Hugo

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.” ~Victor Hugo

"To talk out loud when one is alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity within." ~Victor Hugo from The Man Who Laughs (1869)

"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause." ~Victor Hugo

“Those who do not weep, do not see.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"To love beauty is to see light."  ~Victor Hugo

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"What makes night within us may leave stars." ~Victor Hugo

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." ~Victor Hugo

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." ~Victor Hugo

"When they tried to detatch this skeleton from the one it embraced, it crumbled to dust." ~The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831), by Victor Hugo

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. And great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. And even loved in spite of ourselves." ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables


"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do not bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear." ~Victor Hugo, Villemain (1845)

VERSES

"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."
~Victor Hugo , Early Love Revisited

Trees of the forest, you know my soul!
As envy dictates, the crowd praises and blames;
But you know me well, you have seen me often,
Alone in your depths, gazing and dreaming.
You know the stone where a scarab beetle scampers,
A humble drop of water falling from flower to flower,
A cloud, a bird can occupy me a whole day,
Contemplation fills my heart with love...
~Victor Hugo, Contemplations

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