Victor Hugo Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

• So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

  Victor Hugo

  Rocks, Agony, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

• I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

  Victor Hugo

  Desire, Lasts, Necks

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

• The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Law, Hatred

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.82, Modern Library

• He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Lost Love, Heart

• Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Desire, Microscopes

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1064, Sheba Blake Publishing

• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

  Victor Hugo

  Suicide, Wisdom, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

• There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

  Victor Hugo

  Desire, Advancement, Moral

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  Victor Hugo

  Desire, Shameful

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