Quotes from Victor Hugo

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

The saints are persecuted, eyes are closed to the truth, darkness is the daily wear. The most savage beasts are those that are blind. No one thinks seriously of Hell. Oh the wickedness of people! In the name of the King' means, in these days, In the name of the Revolution! No man knows where his duty lies, to be living or to be dead. To die in sanctity is forbidden, burial is a civic matter.

It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities.

Din suferin?? în suferin??,ajunsese puÈ›in câte puÈ›in la convingerea c? viaÈ›a e o lupt? È™i c? în aceast? lupt? el era cel învins.Nu avea alt? arm? decât ura.

Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.

On the day their eyes met and finally said abruptly to each of them those first obscure ineffable things that the glance stammers out...

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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.

Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

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

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

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