“In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.” — Victor Hugo Dirt Copy Share Image
“An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.” — Victor Hugo Peace Copy Share Image
“There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.” — Victor Hugo Time Copy Share Image
“It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Ima jedan prizor koji je veći od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je veći od neba, to je unutrašnjost… — Victor Hugo Dusa Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves” — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. — Victor Hugo Christ 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 truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the… — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
“There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun;… — Victor Hugo Philosophy 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 believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“He had but one consolation, that she had loved him, that her eyes had told him so, that although she did not… — Victor Hugo 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
“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to… — Victor Hugo Napoleon Copy Share Image
“To be granite and to doubt! To be the statue of Chastisement cast in one piece in the mould of the law,… — Victor Hugo Chastisement Copy Share Image
“They set fire to all the plantations, and massacred the colonists with the most unheard-of barbarities. By one single detail I can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few… — 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 Death 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
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. — Victor Hugo Imminent Copy Share Image
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.” — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly” — Victor Hugo Close to death Copy Share Image
“Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.” — Victor Hugo Liars Copy Share Image
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Mes amis, retenez ceci, il n’y a ni mauvaises herbes ni mauvais hommes. Il n’y a que de mauvais cultivateurs.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. — Victor Hugo Humans Copy Share Image
“Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. — Victor Hugo Army Copy Share Image
“Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
