Quotes from Victor Hugo
There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.
- Victor Hugo
The mind is a garden
- Victor Hugo
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.
- Victor Hugo
At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.
- Victor Hugo
This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.
- Victor Hugo
Ignominy thirsts for respect.
- Victor Hugo
he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.
- Victor Hugo
There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
- Victor Hugo
It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.
- Victor Hugo
Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.
- Victor Hugo
If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
- Victor Hugo
It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.
- Victor Hugo