Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 30

• Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Peace

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• Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Worry, Soul

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

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• To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Thinking, Labour

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

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• On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Philosopher, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2609, Delphi Classics

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• Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Flow, Three, Iliad

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

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• That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Humanity, Outrage

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

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• There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Spring, Destiny

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.464, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

  Victor Hugo

  Human Nature, Mankind, Humans

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.782, Wordsworth Editions

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• God made the water but men made the wine.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Men, Water

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• Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

  Victor Hugo

  Opportunity, Heaven, Half

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• Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

  Victor Hugo

  Knowledge, Science, Penetration

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.766, Modern Library

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• Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Earth, Blind

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• Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

  Victor Hugo

  Valentines Day, Stars, Flower

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

  Victor Hugo

  Rain, Mean, Doe

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• A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

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• Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

  Victor Hugo

  Suicide, Sublime, Doe

  Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Llewellyn William, Frederick Lokes Slous, Mrs. Camilla Dufour (Toulmin) " Crosland (Newton Crosland, ") (1907*). “Les misérables, book 5. Hans of Iceland”

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• Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Light, Blind

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.787, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, Discovery, Civilization

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• 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”

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• Progress is the life-style of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Style, Progress

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• Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Soul, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7026, Delphi Classics

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• Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

  Victor Hugo

  Sweet, Sweet Love, Rich

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• I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

  Victor Hugo

  Lovers

  Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

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• Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
  So that I may leave this place and disappear.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Night, Doors

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• The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

  Victor Hugo

  Persistence, Ideas, Terrible

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

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