I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
“No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought,” — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
“Kada si u najvecim mukama i kada ti se dusa grci od bola,kada se ne zna da li si ziv ili mrtav,ipak… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Eponine e Azelma não davam pela sua presença. Era para elas como um cachorro. As três meninas juntas não somavam 24 anos… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man,… — Victor Hugo Civilisation Copy Share Image
“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or… — Victor Hugo Ignorance Copy Share Image
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is… — Victor Hugo French language Copy Share Image
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
“He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings,… — Victor Hugo Kindness Copy Share Image
“Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do… — Victor Hugo Sacrifice Copy Share Image
“The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother… — Victor Hugo Lion Copy Share Image
“The presence of this extraordinary being caused, as it were, a breath of life to circulate throughout the entire cathedral. It seemed… — Victor Hugo Cathedral Copy Share Image
“He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants,"… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he remained in a sitting posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Au-dessus de l'absolu révolutionnaire, il y a l'absolu humain.” — Victor Hugo Humanitarianism Copy Share Image
“By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo Civilization Copy Share Image
“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.” — Victor Hugo Women Copy Share Image
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. "The mind is a garden," said he.” — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you… — Victor Hugo Widowers Copy Share Image
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Prayer Copy Share Image
“At the same time, his ideas underwent an extraordinary change. The phases of this change were numerous and successive.” — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“Pobegli snovi ne ostavljaju trag kao ni rasturena magla,a kad oblak prodje,ljubav nije nista manja u srcu,kao sto nije ni sunce na… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
