Victor Hugo Quotes about Mourning
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
'Les Misèrables' (1862) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 1
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.589, Modern Library