Les Miserable Quotes About Life
"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Those who do not weep, do not see."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends"
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
Les Miserable Quotes About Love ✔
"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. ."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
Miserable Woman Quotes ✔
"A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children."
— Victor Hugo (Fantine (Les Misérables, #1))
"The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the walls and shine dimly into the darkness. It is impossible that this sacred festival of destiny should not send a celestial radiation to the infinite. Love is the sublime crucible in which is consummated the fusion of man and woman; the one being, the triple being, the final being-- the human trinity springs from it. This birth of two souls into one space must be an emotion for space. "
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
Les Miserables Quotes About Justice✔
"There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war. "
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
Miserables Quotes and sayings
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"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 (Les Misérables)
"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"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 (Les Misérables)
"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
"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 (Les Misérables)
"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)