“Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs.” — Victor Hugo Indigestion Copy Share Image
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo Idle Copy Share Image
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo Arms Copy Share Image
“She worked to live; then, also to live, for the heart too has its hunger, she loved.” — Victor Hugo Hunger Copy Share Image
“He doubted everything with an air of superiority--a great power in the eyes of the weak.” — Victor Hugo Doubted Copy Share Image
“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.” — Victor Hugo Innovation Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.” — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes… — Victor Hugo Cosette Copy Share Image
“Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.” — Victor Hugo Judgment Copy Share Image
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman… — Victor Hugo Blessed Copy Share Image
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy… — Victor Hugo Believe Copy Share Image
“What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic,… — Victor Hugo Love 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… — Victor Hugo Believe Copy Share Image
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two… — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was… — Victor Hugo Time Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Discipline Copy Share Image
“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it… — Victor Hugo Dictators Copy Share Image
“No temamos nunca a los ladrones ni a los asesinos; éstos no son más que los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Temámonos… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“The four walls of the living redoubt had fallen, hardly could a quivering be detected here and there among the corpses; and… — Victor Hugo Life 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.” — Victor Hugo Arranging things Copy Share Image
