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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 30

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Bored, Sometimes, Ought

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Moving, Next, Theater

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

Doctors, Doors, Should

Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Shadow, Throat, Hard

Victor Hugo (1893). “The Novels, Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo: Les misérables”

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

Lying, Elements, Poetic

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

Animal, Sea, Land

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Human Nature, Mankind, Humans

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.782, Wordsworth Editions

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Queens, Charm, Meter

God made the water but men made the wine.

Wine, Men, Water

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Knowledge, Science, Penetration

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.766, Modern Library

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Opportunity, Heaven, Half

Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars

Valentines Day, Stars, Flower

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Love, Earth, Blind

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

Rain, Mean, Doe

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Men, Soul, Darkness

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7026, Delphi Classics

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Peace, Discovery, Civilization

Progress is the life-style of man.

Men, Style, Progress

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

Wings, Light, Flames

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

Simple, Men, Light

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Suicide, Sublime, Doe

Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Llewellyn William, Frederick Lokes Slous, Mrs. Camilla Dufour (Toulmin) " Crosland (Newton Crosland, ") (1907*). “Les misérables, book 5. Hans of Iceland”

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

Men, Light, Blind

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.787, My Ebook Publishing House

Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

Sweet, Sweet Love, Rich

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

Lovers

Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

Death, Night, Doors

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

Persistence, Ideas, Terrible

Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

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