Victor Hugo Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  Victor Hugo

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

• ...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, White, Joy

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.96, My Ebook Publishing House

• As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Twilight, Joy, Being Sad

• The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

  Victor Hugo

  Gratitude, Men, Joy

• Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Joy, Accepting

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.86, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

  Victor Hugo

  Character, Joy, Faults

• These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Joy, Felicity

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

• Joy is the reflex of terror.

  Victor Hugo

  Joy, Reflexes, Terror

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.488, Modern Library

• ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Morning, Memories

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

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