Victor Hugo Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Grief, Looks

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.16

• Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Sorrow, Radiance

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Order, Essence

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

• It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Men, Sides

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

• Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Grief, Sunshine

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

• Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Taken, Men

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.379, Wildside Press LLC

• Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Plunge, Cosette

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

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