Victor Hugo Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

  Victor Hugo

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Shadow

  Victor Hugo (1938). “Les Miserables: A Novel”

• Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, One Day, Gains

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.700, Wordsworth Editions

• where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Summit, Ifs

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

• Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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