Les Mis Quotes

• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

  135 Copy quote
• 

  To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wedding, Happy Valentines Day

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, Xist Publishing

  115 Copy quote

  Show source

• He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

  Victor Hugo

  Study

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.72, My Ebook Publishing House

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wisdom, Live Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Guilt, Causes

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Dark, Pearls

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Reason

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Romantic, Two

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.612, Wordsworth Editions

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Wisdom, World

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.286, Courier Corporation

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Habit, Easy

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Kissing, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1031, First Avenue Editions

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Terrible, Dies

  "My midlife crisis has focused me on what to do between now and death" by Clare Allan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Causes

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: Works Answer Words, 1862.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

  Victor Hugo

  Study, Les Miserable, Ifs

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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

  Victor Hugo

  Class, Humanity, Poverty

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

  115 Copy quote

  Show source

• The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down.

  Melina Marchetta

  Running, Eye, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

  Graham Robb

  Reading, Views, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

  Hugh Jackman

  Movie, Long, Musical

  "Les Miserables - Hugh Jackman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.

  Laura Benanti

  Lying, Princess, Phases

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading guy who falls in love, simple and naive. Even just doing Enjolras recently in Les Mis. I used to cover Marius and thought: "Oh, that's simple. What I should be doing." But then when I got Enjolras, I hadn't even thought about it. He's more powerful, sure of himself, a leader. It was nice! It was much harder singing, passionate, declamatory. Which was awesome - and now this!

  Max von Essen

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Nice

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source