Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. — Victor Hugo Comedy 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 Death Copy Share Image
“It is like a skull, which still has holes for eyes, but no longer sight.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Pravedan čovjek mršti obrve, ali se nikada pakosno ne osmjehuje. Mi razumijemo srdžbu, ali ne i zlobu.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Armies Copy Share Image
“We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the… — Victor Hugo Breaking silence Copy Share Image
“Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.” — Victor Hugo Children 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 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 Death Copy Share Image
“What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly… — Victor Hugo Goals Copy Share Image
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the… — Victor Hugo Breaking silence Copy Share Image
“What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To… — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is,… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it… — Victor Hugo Guilty person Copy Share Image
“Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one’s self. But he did not understand… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the… — Victor Hugo Eating Copy Share Image
“Demain, dès l’aube Demain, dès l’aube, à l’heure où blanchit la campagne, Je partirai. Vois-tu, je sais que tu m’attends. J’irai par… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city breathing;… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man. — Victor Hugo Humanity Copy Share Image
“This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.” — Victor Hugo Enemy 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
“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.” — Victor Hugo Women Copy Share Image
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo Civilization 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
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. — 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
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God. — Victor Hugo 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
