1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight

Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion?

Elles ont un père. Ce ne sont pas de ces malheureuses qui commencent par n'avoir pas de famille et qui finissent par épouser le public. On est mamselle Personne, on devient madame Tout-le-monde.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them.

Et ces deux âmes, sœurs tragiques, s'envolèrent ensemble, l'ombre de l'une mêlée à la lumière de l'autre.

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.