LES MISERABLES BOOK QUOTES

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” – Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” – Victor Hugo

“He enjoyed the luxury of being heartbroken all alone.” – Victor Hugo

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” – Victor Hugo

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” – Victor Hugo

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” – Victor Hugo

“One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this return is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse.” – Victor Hugo

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” – Victor Hugo

“To owe life to a malefactor . . . to be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice . . . to betray society in order to be true to his own conscience; that all these absurdities should have existed side by side in his brain, and should have formed a constant mixture: adventure to adventure, dream to dream.” – Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.” – Victor Hugo

“He wore the look of a man who has been gnawing a bone all night.” – Victor Hugo

“He appeared to be thinking; then he smiled and launched into a Latin quotation: ‘Μοναδικῶς καὶ μονοφάγως.’” – Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of oneself.” – Victor Hugo

“Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo DESTINED FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” – Victor Hugo

“A jailer is a man who is employed to be good when he feels inclined, to humiliate himself when he is ordered, to torture when he has the chance, to grant pardon when he wishes, and to make catalogs of the human race.” – Victor Hugo

“I am not a capitalist. I have been all my life what is called in England long a Liberal.” – Victor Hugo

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees; they begin by absorbing a single drop.” – Victor Hugo

“Desiring a good path, it behooves us to assume the nature of good travelers.” – Victor Hugo

“On the day when two men ceased to be menaces to each other, war no longer existed. Future years will bring only peace.” – Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself—better still, loved despite oneself.” – Victor Hugo

“A fall from such a height is rarely uncomplicated.” – Victor Hugo

“There is an evil worse than the caged one, and that is the caged soul.” – Victor Hugo

“God himself deigned to be a man, and the man is Jean Valjean.” – Victor Hugo

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” – Victor Hugo