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Les Misérables QUOTES

Les Misérables QUOTES

1 " 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 "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

2 " 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. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

3 " 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. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

4 " I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

5 " 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. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

6 " If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

7 " The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

8 " Not being heard is no reason for silence. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

9 " Those who do not weep, do not see. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

10 " Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

11 " where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

12 " Sin is a gravitation. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

13 " 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. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

14 " The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

15 " The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

16 " He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night inhale their perfume, lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of creation, he could not himself perhaps have told what was passing in his own mind; he felt something depart from him, and something descend upon him, mysterious interchanges of the depths of the soul with the depths of the universe. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

17 " Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'

Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis:

Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

18 " Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

19 " As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

20 " The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables