Les Miserable Quotes

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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• There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Thinking, Tongue

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.8

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• Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Sorrow, Radiance

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

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• To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Soul, Horrible

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.637, Wordsworth Editions

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• What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Men, Influence

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

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• If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

  Victor Hugo

  Political, Politics, Speak

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• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Wings, Two

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Philosopher, Priests

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

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• Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Prayer, Views

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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• We are for religion against the religions.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit

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

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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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• He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.597, Modern Library

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

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

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  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

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

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.49

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• 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

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• Those who do not weep, do not see.

  Victor Hugo

  Sad, Cry

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• 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, Les Mis

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

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• We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Insult

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Wisdom, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

  Victor Hugo

  Rope, Made, Blunders

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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