Quotes from Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.