“Death has but few terrors for the crushed and broken spirit; but how heavy and icy is his hand when it grasps… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Now for my pains, promise me-“ And she hesitated. “What?” asked Marius. “Promise me!” “I promise you.” “Promise to kiss me on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. — Victor Hugo 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 Copy Share Image
“Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The child entered the hut. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - "I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Woe, alas, to the one who shall have loved bodies, forms, appearances only. Death will take everything from him. Try to love… — Victor Hugo 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
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo 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 dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
