Victor Hugo Quotes

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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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.

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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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