Victor Hugo Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Suffering, Awareness

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

• God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Angel, Care

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

  Victor Hugo

  Valentines Day, Stars, Flower

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

• O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Night, Sky

• Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Eye, Angel

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

• Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Doors, Heaven

• The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Heart, Angel

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Angel, Devil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2967, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

• 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!

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Angel, Looks

• To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Angel, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

• Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Night, Lips

  "Les misérables".

• That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Two

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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