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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 35

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My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Greatness, Doe, Shelves

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.11, Modern Library

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Eye, Dark, Men

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.127

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

Stars, Distance, People

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1473, My Ebook Publishing House

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

Religious, Lost Love, Heart

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

Love, Crush, Night

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

Science, Equilibrium

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

Angel, Night, Lips

"Les misérables".

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Wisdom, War, Half

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

Yesterday, Forever, May

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

Goodness, Flood, Gracious

Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

Air, Blood, Long

Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

Drama, Epic, History

Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Ill Will, Soul, Tasks

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

Sight

Victor Hugo (2015). “Poems by Victor Hugo”, p.314, Victor Hugo

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Love You, Believe, Littles

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.778, Wordsworth Editions

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Suffering, Ifs

Contemplations 'Les Malheureux'

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

Men, Doe, Bread

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

Fog, Two, Whole Life

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2957, Delphi Classics

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Heart, Winter, Men

Victor Hugo, Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1862). “Les Misérables”, p.155

There are things stronger than the strongest man.

Men, Stronger, Strongest

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.483, Modern Library

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Mean, Views, Sublime

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12464, Delphi Classics

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

Flower, Animal, Ethics

"The Alps and Pyrenees".

When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

Stars, Track, Black

Victor Hugo (1900*). “Works”

Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

Hate, Ignorance, Blood

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

Science, Men, Names

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