Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear. — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures… — Victor Hugo First place Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with… — Victor Hugo Bad boy Copy Share Image
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a” — Victor Hugo Affirmation Copy Share Image
“Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so… — Victor Hugo Husband and wife Copy Share Image
“Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak.… — Victor Hugo Fortune 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
“And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white… — Victor Hugo Time Copy Share Image
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the… — Victor Hugo Enigma Copy Share Image
“In the presence of...civil war, to testify to humanity!...to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense… — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
“Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. The useless must be mingled with happiness.… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. — Victor Hugo Excuse Copy Share Image
“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken… — Victor Hugo Good intentions Copy Share Image
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory — Victor Hugo Barbarous Copy Share Image
“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that… — Victor Hugo Existentialism Copy Share Image
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. — Victor Hugo Break 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 Death Copy Share Image
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and… — Victor Hugo Bed Copy Share Image
“There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second… — Victor Hugo Dark Copy Share Image
“The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness,… — Victor Hugo Adventure Copy Share Image
“Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si même Ils ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor… — Victor Hugo Fight Copy Share Image
“To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.” — Victor Hugo First step Copy Share Image
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a” — Victor Hugo Army Copy Share Image
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Avarice Copy Share Image
“His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
“If anything is terrifying, if there is a reality that surpasses dream, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to… — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Causes Copy Share Image