1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

57. “The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night!

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of sight above him with horrid escarpments, a kind of frightful accumulation of things, of laws, of prejudices, of men, and of acts, the outlines of which escaped him, the weight of which appalled him, and which was no other than that prodigious pyramid that we call civilization.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.