Victor Hugo Quotes

“Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to be in full possession of viral force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush toward a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in ones's breast lounges which breath, a heart which beats, a will which reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, to have children, to have the light - and all at once, in the space of a shout, in less than a minute, to sink into an abyss; to fall, to roll, to crush, to be crushed,to see ears of wheat, flowers, leaves, branches; not to be able to catch hold of anything; to feel one's sword useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, since ones bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel a heel which makes ones's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' shoes in one's rage,; to stifle. to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and to say to one's self, "But just a little while ago I was a living man!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“قال الرجل وهو يرفع قبعته بتواضع :سيدي هل تتفضل بأن تفتح لي الباب لأقضي ليلتي هنا ؟ فأجاب الحارس بصوت أجش : إن السجن ليس حانة , دعهم يلقون القبض عليك فأفتح لك الباب عن طيب خاطر .”
― فيكتور هيجو, البؤساء

“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying it. Bachir had a lovely voice, one that was already that of a man. He knew many poems by heart. He lovingly recited Victor Hugo, with warmth Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre, and poems written by young people going into battle; he then moved on to the poets of liberty - Rimbaud again, Eluard, and Desnos.”
― Assia Djebar, Children of the New World

“طوبي له من عابد رأي عيوب نفسه فقومها, ورأي عوب الناس فأغضي عنها, ورأي الضلال والكفر فاستعان بالله علي مافيه الخير والمنفعة”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Tant qu’il existera, par le fait des lois et des mœurs, une damnation sociale créant artificiellement, en pleine civilisation, des enfers, et compliquant d’une fatalité humaine la destinée qui est divine; tant que les trois problèmes du siècle, la dégradation de l’homme par le prolétariat, la déchéance de la femme par la faim, l’atrophie de l’enfant par la nuit, ne seront pas résolus; tant que, dans de certaines régions, l’asphyxie sociale sera possible; en d’autres termes, et à un point de vue plus étendu encore, tant qu’il y aura sur la terre ignorance et misère, des livres de la nature de celui-ci pourront ne pas être inutiles.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“La nada no existe. Cero no existe. Todo es algo. Nada es nada.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Aucun penseur n'oserait dire que le parfum des aubépines est inutile aux constellations..."
Prolonger la question hugolienne : qui prétendrait que le ressac n'est pour rien dans les rêves du faon, que le vent n'éprouve rien à se heurter au mur, que l'aube est insensible aux trilles des mésanges ?”
― Sylvain Tesson

“During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the defeated. Hatred was his onlt weapon, and he resolved to sharpen it in prison and carry it with him when he left.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Se ignora lo que se debe saber, y se sabe lo que se debería ignorar.”
― Victor Hugo

“When Victor Hugo was buried, you couldn’t find a whore in all of Paris. They were too busy paying their respects. That was a man – and he still has a show on in the West End.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

“A vida não passa de uma longa perda de tudo o que amamos.”
― Victor Hugo

“hasret; özlenenden uzak mı kalmaktır?
özlenen yakındayken hicran duyulamaz mı?”
― Victor Hugo

“No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)”
― Victor Hugo

“وهكذا الإنسان جحود, لا يعترف بفضل, يظاهر القوي ويعضد ذا البأس, ويتنكر لمن جاهد في سبيل البشرية وضحي من أجلها.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“C'etait un jour de fete.
Mais l'haine se repete.
Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur,
Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!”
― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

“Hugo est surréaliste quand il n’est pas bête.”
― André Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme

“Vivemos em uma sociedade sombria. Ser bem-sucedido, eis o ensinamento que, gota a gota, vai caindo da corrupção que avança.”
― Victor Hugo

“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!”
― Victor Hugo

“Jean Valjean, mon frère, vous n'appartenez plus au mal, mais au bien. C'est votre âme que je vous achète; je la retire aux pensées noires et à l'esprit de perdition, et je la donne à Dieu.”
― Victor Hugo Les Misérables

“Eponine and Azelma did not notice Cosette. To them she was like the dog. These three little girls could not count twenty-four years among them all, and they already represented all human society; on one side envy, on the other disdain.”
― Victor Hugo

“Chaque atome d'un bruit dûr
Exhale l'arome d'un fruit mûr.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“Dans une vie de bohème
on peut faire de poème.
Comment serait la vie
sans la douce poésie?”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“Il faut savoir sourire dans la chute
aussi bien qu´élever dans la butte.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“But in spacious, vigorous story-telling, in the use of an historical framework, in the relating of human events to a larger philosophical and spiritual context, in the deployment of fiction as a social and political weapon, in the exultation of 'the people' as a supreme authority, in the treatment of suffering as a dominant theme--in all these matters Hugo exerted a profound influence on Tolstoy.”
― Peter Washington

“Allez, philosophes, enseignez, éclairez, allumez, pensez haut, parlez haut, courez joyeux au grand soleil, fraternisez avec les places publiques, annoncez les bonnes nouvelles, prodiguez les alphabets, proclamez les droits, chantez les Marseillaises, semez les enthousiasmes, arrachez des branches vertes aux chênes. Faites de l'idée un tourbillon. Cette foule peut être sublimée. Sachons nous servir de ce vaste embrasement des principes et des vertus qui pétille, éclate et frissonne à de certaines heures. Ces pieds nus, ces bras nus, ces haillons, ces ignorances, ces abjections, ces ténèbres, peuvent être employés à la conquête de l'idéal. Regardez à travers le peuple et vous apercevrez la vérité. Ce vil sable que vous foulez aux pieds, qu'on le jette dans la fournaise, qu'il y fonde et qu'il y bouillonne, il deviendra cristal splendide, et c'est grâce à lui que Galilée et Newton découvriront les astres.”
― Victor Hugo