Victor Hugo Quotes

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Ideas Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Soul Quotes , Darkness Quotes

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sleep Quotes , House Quotes

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Real Quotes , Grief Quotes

‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Girl Quotes , Soul Quotes

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Feet Quotes , Adorable Quotes

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Balance Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Les Mis Quotes

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Vision Quotes , Impossible Quotes

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Perfect Quotes , Perfection Quotes

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Suffering Quotes

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Queens Quotes , Moments Quotes

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , People Quotes

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , May Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Quotes , Dark Quotes

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Style Quotes , Substance Quotes

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sad Quotes , Being Sad Quotes

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sublime Quotes

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Hero Quotes , Eye Quotes