Hugo's famous quotes

1. The widest thing in the world is the ocean, wider than the ocean is the sky, and wider than the sky is the human mind.

2. The future will belong to two types of people: people who think and people who work. In fact, these two people are the same person, because thinking is also labor.

3. On top of the absolutely correct revolution, there is also an absolutely correct humanitarianism.

4. Human wisdom holds three keys, one for numbers, one for letters, and one for notes. Knowledge, thoughts, fantasies are there.

5. What the world lacks is perseverance, not strength.

6. Boldness is the price of progress.

7. You should believe that you are the strong one in life.

8. There are many thorns on the road of art, which is also a good thing. Most people are afraid of it, except those with strong will.

9. Those who waste their years will lose their youth and life will abandon them.

10. Laughter is like sunshine, driving away the winter on people’s faces.

11. Reluctantly agreeing is worse than frank refusal.

12. It is the human heart that releases infinite light, and it is also the human heart that creates boundless darkness.

13. Books are tools for cultivating the soul.

14. Only when people have material things can they survive; only when people have ideals can they live life.

15. Where the feet cannot reach, the eyes can reach; where the eyes cannot reach, the spirit can fly.

16. One more school can save one prison.

17. Life is about facing a smile.

18. Of the two ears of man, one hears the voice of God and the other hears the voice of the devil.

19. I would rather rely on my own strength to open up my future than ask for the favor of a powerful person.

Famous quotes from Hugo's works

What weapon does humanity use? What kind of ordnance is it? It's a cradle.

——"1993"

With a little effort, a nettle can become a useful thing; if you don't care at all, it becomes a harmful thing, so it is eradicated. How many people resemble nettles!

Never be afraid of thieves and murderers. That's the danger outside of yourself, a small danger. Let’s be afraid of ourselves. Prejudice is a thief; vice is a murderer. The great danger lies within ourselves. What is the danger that threatens our heads or our wallets? Consider the dangers that threaten our souls!

The most sacred generosity of mankind is to atone for the sins of others.

The things that human beings depend on for survival are "definitely" more important than bread.

The human heart is more dazzling and darker than anywhere else; nothing that the spiritual eye can gaze upon is as terrifying, complex, mysterious, or boundless as the human heart. There is a scene that is grander than the ocean, and that is the sky; there is another scene that is grander than the sky, and that is the inner world of man.

Pleasure, what a sad purpose, what a trivial ambition! Only the ignorant enjoy themselves. Think, this is the true victory of the soul.

A monastery is a contradiction. The purpose is eternal happiness; the method is sacrifice. Monastery is extreme selfishness resulting from extreme self-denial.

Meditating and observing is work; thinking about mysterious sounds is action.

He who never prays really needs someone who is always praying.

There is infinity outside of us, but isn’t there also infinity within us? Don't these two infinities overlap with each other? Isn't the second infinity intrinsic to the first infinity? Is it not another infinite mirror, reflection and echo, with a center point? Does the second infinity also have intelligence? Is it thinking? Will it love? Does it have a wish? If both infinities have intelligence, then each has a will-generating essence. There is an I in the upper infinity, and likewise there is an I in the lower infinity. The one below me is the soul, and the one above me is God.

Thinking, fantasy, and prayer are all huge and mysterious radiations. We should respect it. Where does this magnificent radiance of the soul shine? Shooting into darkness means shooting towards light.

Destroy fanaticism and revere the infinite, this is the right way.

People who are running for their lives cannot cough or sneeze.

Any woman knows this from the day she is born! Her mouth answers to one person, but her eyes answer to another.

——"Les Misérables"

Can laughter and happiness be equated? The bronze statue seems to be laughing, making people laugh, but in fact it is meditating.

All sentient beings have too many brains and end up without thoughts; they have too many eyes and end up seeing nothing; they themselves are the surface, so they always stay on the surface.

The rich man’s paradise is built by the poor out of hell.

The wind is like a lonely person who talks a lot.

The trouble with words is that they represent clearer outlines than ideas. The boundaries of various ideas can cross each other, but words cannot. The mind always has some diffuse angle from which words escape. Expression is limited but thought is unlimited.

The flesh shouts: "Go!" The soul shouts: "Don't go!"

I am the terrible Laughing Man. What is the Smiling Man laughing at? Laughing at you, at himself, at everything. What does his smile mean? Means your sins and His sufferings. He throws this sin upon your heads, He spits this pain in your faces. I laugh, which means: I'm crying.

——"The Man Who Laughs"

Being ripped off the mask is a kind of failure, but taking off the mask yourself is a kind of victory.

Once you fall into the abyss of pain, sometimes it will drive you out of the world of the living.

Doing and achieving are two different things. For example, it is easy to dream, but it is difficult to make your dreams come true.

At the end of the abyss, there was a contest between representatives of conspiracy and evil. On one side were beasts and on the other side were humans. The evil beasts executed the evil people. What terrible justice.

——"Sea Labor"