Victor Hugo Quotes about Destiny

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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

Victor Hugo

War, Taken, Destiny

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

Victor Hugo

Wise, Heart, Destiny

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.128, Wildside Press LLC

Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

Victor Hugo

Heart, Destiny, Men

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

Victor Hugo

Wise, Philosophy, Destiny

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Victor Hugo

Destiny, Men, Influence

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

Victor Hugo

Destiny, Wings, Two

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Victor Hugo

Block, Destiny, Black

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

Victor Hugo

Dream, Spring, Destiny

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.464, Wordsworth Editions