Les Miserables Quotes – Inspiring and Timeless Words
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Do not forget, do not ever forget: Valjean, that you have promised to use this silver to become an honest man.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
I am reaching, but I fall. And the stars are black and cold. As I stare into the void of a world that cannot hold.
I have seen God in his glory, and today I have seen Satan in his ravings.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible. For the fainthearted, it is unknown. But for the valiant, it is ideal.
The most important virtue is courage.
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
There are no bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
To die for lack of love is horrible.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
The worst thing about pride is that it makes you feel superior to others, but it keeps you from being superior to yourself.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing more.
Ideas are the backbone of civilization.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
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.
One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Every man has his lurking ambition.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
To fling oneself into the bottomless abyss of alcoholism is a desperate and cherished pastime.
An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.
Without money, one can’t do anything.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end, finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end, finds God.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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.
Popular opinion is not always the same thing as truth.
Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud.
To be allowed to come back to him, to come back to life… I would die a thousand deaths.
The mystery of human life is not that souls are ruined and the world wrecked; the mystery of human life is that souls are saved and the world renewed.
As long as ignorance and poverty exist on Earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Man is not on Earth merely to be happy. He is here to fulfill a mission.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Resignation is the suicide of the soul.
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
To die for lack of love is horrible.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The soul is the same in all beings, although they may seem to be divided.
The law is no longer the law if it violates the rights of the individual.
A society that has no notion of its guilt and is unaware of it does not deserve to be called a civilization.
I am not a veterinarian, but I know a horse when I see one.