Inspirational quotes by Victor Hugo.
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
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.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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.
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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.
Love is the only future God offers.
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
Sin is a gravitation.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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