The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. — Victor Hugo Attraction Copy Share Image
“If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.” — Victor Hugo Child Copy Share Image
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. — Victor Hugo Thinking Copy Share Image
“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.” — victor hugo Politics Copy Share Image
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. — Victor Hugo Diamond Copy Share Image
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. — Victor Hugo Atheism Copy Share Image
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension… — Victor Hugo Cosette Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of… — Victor Hugo Heaven Copy Share Image
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Being loved Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is… — Victor Hugo Lottery Copy Share Image
“M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and… — Victor Hugo Sayings Copy Share Image
“In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance,… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of… — Victor Hugo Execution Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“What a transfiguration it is to love! And the little shrieks, the pursuits in the grass, the waists encircled by stealth, the… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.” — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo Desire Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.” — Victor Hugo Condemnation Copy Share Image
“There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.” — Victor Hugo Bad husband Copy Share Image
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The soul does not give up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.” — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
“This blind-man's-buff musketry lasted for a quarter of an hour and killed several panes of glass.” — Victor Hugo Blind Copy Share Image
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In every village there is a candle, the teacher; and an extinguisher, the clergy.” — Victor Hugo Candle Copy Share Image
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive… We must not resort to the flame where only light is… — Victor Hugo Essence Copy Share Image
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” ― Les miserables” — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.” — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Bishop Copy Share Image
