Top 49 Miserables Hugo Quotes
#2. There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.
Victor Hugo
#3. These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
Victor Hugo
#4. A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in
what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor Hugo
#5. The bureau is closed, said Gavroche. I'm receiving no more complaints.
Victor Hugo
#6. There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.
Victor Hugo
#7. What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
Victor Hugo
#8. A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
Victor Hugo
#9. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
#10. Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
Victor Hugo
#11. France is great because she is France.
Victor Hugo
#12. Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
Victor Hugo
#13. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
Victor Hugo
#14. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
Victor Hugo
#15. There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
Victor Hugo
#16. The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.
Victor Hugo
#17. And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.
Victor Hugo
#18. People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Victor Hugo
#19. The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
Victor Hugo
#20. [He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.
Victor Hugo
#21. Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
Victor Hugo
#22. There is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?
Victor Hugo
#23. Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.
Victor Hugo
#24. The night was serene. Not a cloud was in the zenith. What mattered is that the earth was red, the moon retained her whiteness. Such is the indifference of heaven.
Victor Hugo
#25. A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
Victor Hugo
#26. To love your neighbors is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
#28. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
#29. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.
Victor Hugo
#30. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
#31. A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo
#32. In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#33. A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
Victor Hugo
#34. There is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
Victor Hugo
#35. Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him
he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
Victor Hugo
#36. So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
Victor Hugo
#37. As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Victor Hugo
#38. There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.
Victor Hugo
#39. Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
Les Miserables, page 674
Victor Hugo
#40. Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
#42. He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Victor Hugo
#43. Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.
Victor Hugo
#45. The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor Hugo
#46. I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo
#48. Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#49. A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
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