Top 25 Quotes by Victor Hugo of 966 - Page 31

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

Victor Hugo

Stars, Eye, Dark

Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1097, First Avenue Editions

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

Victor Hugo

Cities, Two, Paris

Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

Victor Hugo

Broken, Hatred, Suffering

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom, Common Sense, Genius

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Victor Hugo

Being Sad, Melancholy, Pleasure And Happiness

Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

Victor Hugo

Reality, Forgotten, Reality Of Life

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.804, My Ebook Publishing House

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

Victor Hugo

Men, Self, Remembrance

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

Victor Hugo

Heart, Sunshine, Bird

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Victor Hugo

Destiny, Men, Important

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

Morning, Time, Labyrinth

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo

Vision, Impossible, Unforeseen

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.986, Modern Library

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

Victor Hugo

Ocean, Men, Sea

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Victor Hugo

Clouds, Algebra, Application

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.41

Life is a flower of which love is honey.

Victor Hugo

Flower, Love Life, Love Is

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Victor Hugo

Cute, Dream, Sweet

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1850, BookCaps Study Guides

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

Victor Hugo

Race, Sky, Cities

Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.14