Victor Hugo Quotes About Destiny

Quotes about: Destiny

• Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Taken, Destiny

• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Wings, Two

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

• True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Men, Important

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

• Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Fate, Night

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

• What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Men, Influence

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

• Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Giving Up, Struggle

• There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Spring, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.464, Wordsworth Editions

• Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Heart, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.128, Wildside Press LLC

• Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Destiny, Men

• ...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

  Victor Hugo

  Block, Destiny, Black

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

• During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Philosophy, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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