Victor Hugo Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Suffering, Cosette

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.66

• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Pain, Men

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Suffering, Awareness

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughing, Suffering, Sometimes

• If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

  Victor Hugo

  Suffering, Height, Ifs

  'Contemplations' (1856) bk. 5, no. 26 'Les Malheureux'

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  Victor Hugo

  Suffering, Complaining, Carts

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

  Victor Hugo

  Boredom, Suffering, Hell

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

• No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight, Two, Suffering

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

  Victor Hugo

  Suffering, Ifs

  Contemplations 'Les Malheureux'

• 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 transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

• Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Flower, Suffering

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel”, p.295, Mondial

• These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Long, Touching

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

• In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Stars, Men

• 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

• To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

  Victor Hugo

  Hypocrisy, Suffering, Torture

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

• There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Light, Flames

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Broken, Hatred, Suffering

• In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3568, Delphi Classics

• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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