Victor Hugo: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 4)

“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

“… 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.”

“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”

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

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”

“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”

“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”

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

“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.”

“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

-Claude Frollo”

“There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”

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

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”