Inspiration Quote by Victor Hugo — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

“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”

“When the heart is dry the eye is dry.”

“I see black light (his last words)”

“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:”

“A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.”

“Wishes can be your best avenue of getting what you want when you turn wishes into action. Action moves your wish to the forefront from thought to reality.”

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.”

“I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.”

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”

“Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.”