Victor Hugo Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

• "Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Animal, Risk

  "The Man Who Laughs: L'Homme Qui Rit".

• The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Paradise, Hell

  Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.393, Victor Hugo

• I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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  Life, Dream, Different

• There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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  Boredom, Suffering, Hell

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

• 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

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Humanity, Religion

• The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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  Paradise, Hell, Rich

• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Blessing, Boredom

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

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