Victor Hugo Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Past, Echoes

  Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Giving, Progress

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  Victor Hugo

  Time, Science, Past

• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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