Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 38

• All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Answers, Blocked

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

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• To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

  Victor Hugo

  Divine, Humans

  "Autumn Leaves". Book by Victor Hugo, 1831.

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• This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Men

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• In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Men, Gossip

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
  She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Queens, Needs

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems”, p.317, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No religion but blasphemes a little.

  Victor Hugo

  Religion, Littles

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• Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Poetry, Harmony

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12470, Delphi Classics

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• Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

  Victor Hugo

  House, Humans, Human Beings

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• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Becoming One, Genius

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• When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Mean, Going Away

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.393

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• And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Reality, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.415, Wordsworth Editions

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• Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Creation, Witness

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• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

  Victor Hugo

  Tree, Stories, Trifling

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

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• The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Law, Hatred

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.82, Modern Library

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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Genius, Infinite

  "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

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• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Genius, Superhuman

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• The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Angel, Hands

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• Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Blessed, People

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• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

  Victor Hugo

  Carnivals, Constant, Left

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

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• Joy is the reflex of terror.

  Victor Hugo

  Joy, Reflexes, Terror

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

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• There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Wickedness

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
  [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

  Victor Hugo

  War, Eagles

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• Oh! Everything I loved!

  Victor Hugo

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