Victor Hugo Quotes about Grief

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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

Victor Hugo

Grief, Men, Sides

Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

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

Stars, Grief, Looks

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.16

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Victor Hugo

Real, Grief, Sunshine

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Victor Hugo

Grief, Sorrow, Radiance

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.167, Modern Library

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

Grief, Order, Essence

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Victor Hugo

Grief, Taken, Men

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.379, Wildside Press LLC