Les Miserables Quotes

“God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.'
'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all your names.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“الحب هو تحية الملائكة للنجوم
ما أشد حزن الروح ساعة يحزنها الحب
ما أكثر ما ينقلب المحبوب الى معبود

افترارة ثغر عن بسمة خاطفة تكفي
لحمل الروح إلى قصور الأحلام

بعض الأفكار صلاة
وهناك أوقات تجثو الروح فيها على ركبتيها
دون أن تحفل الجسم وأوضاره

المحبون الذين فرق بينهم الدهر يخدعون التنائي
بألف عذر وهمي خيالي
والألف هذا لا تزول صفة الحقيقة عنه

إنهم لا يكتبون لبعضهم البعض
إنهم لا يرون بعضهم البعض

إلا إنهم يجدون الجم الغفير من وسائل الاتصال
فهم ينيطون ذلك بتغريد الطيور
وعبير الزهر
وضحكات الأطفال
وأشعة الشمس
وضوء القمر
وزفرات الريح
وتألق النجوم
ولم لا يفعلون ؟!

إنَّ جميع ما أوجده الله أوجده خدمة للعشاق
فالحب قوي
والحب قادر على تسخير الطبيعة لخدمته !

أيها الربيع... أنت كتاب أخطه لها
المستقبل يملكه القلب أكثر مما يحوزه العقل
والشيء الوحيد الذي يستطيع ان يستوعب الخلود هو الحب

(والسرمد يتطلب البقاء)

الحب والروح عنصر واحد
وهو كـ الروح شعلة مقدسة
إنه ذؤابة شرارة في داخلنا
ذؤابة متقدة
لا تخمد ولا تنطفئ
إنه ذؤابة نشعر بها في نخاع العظم
ونراها تشع في عنان السماء

أيها الحب
يا ترنيمة الملائكة
يا نور ذهنين وقلبين وبصرين وبصيرتين
ستأتي إليّ حاملا معك السعادة

الله كمال السماء..والحب كمال الانسان !
أنت تنظر إلى النجم لسببين
لأنه متلألئ
ولأنه غامض لا يرقى اليه إلادراك
وإزاؤك إشعاع أكثر ضياء وبهاء
وبجانبك لغز مستغلق أشد غموضا
(المرأة)

لكل منا كائن نستنشق عبير الحياة من ثناياه
فإذا زال من حياتنا
انقطع الهواء الذي نتنفس
فتكتم أنفاسنا
ويحتقن الدم في وجوهنا
ونموت .. !!
والموت بسبب الافتقار إلى الحب أمر مروع
إنه اختناق الروح !!

عندما يصهر الحب شخصين في بوتقة الاندماج المقدس
فإن سرّ الحياة يتكشف لهما
ويصبحان جناحيّ روح واحدة فردة !
إذا أضفت عليك امرأة فيض من نورها
أضاعتك وأصبحت عاشقاً متيما
وعليك عندئذ أن تفعل شيئا واحدا
أن تفكر بها ليل نهار
حتى تضطر هي إلى التفكير فيك !

ما يبدؤه الحب لا ينهيه إلا الله
الحب لا يعرف القناعة ولا الرضا
فإن حزنا السعادة به
تطلعنا إلى النعيم
وان ظفرنا بالجنة
تشوفنا الأبصار إلى الفردوس ..

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― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“What love commences can be finished by God alone.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose
que deja ton coeur avait repondu.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“I understand only love and liberty.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Se dice que en toda manada de lobos hay un perro al que la loba mata, porque si lo deja vivir al crecer devoraría a los demás cachorros. Dad un rostro humano a este perro hijo de loba y tendréis el retrato de aquel hombre.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“And you will keep me safe and you will keep me close and rain will make the flowers grow.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Wine, for serious drunks, enjoys only a limited success. There is, concerning inebriation, black magic and white magic; wine is only white magic.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“And whatever he did, he always fell back onto this paradox at the core of his thought. To remain in paradise and become a demon! To re-enter hell and become an angel!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Men had only touched him to bruise him. Every contact with them had been a blow. Never, since his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away with him when he departed.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Bewigged tragedy has a reason for its existence.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“We who die here will die in the radiance of the future. We go to a tomb flooded with the light of dawn.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Quel che aveva visto, non era l'occhio ingenuo e semplice d'una bimba, ma un abisso misterioso, che s'era socchiuso e poi rinserrato bruscamente.
V'è un giorno in cui ogni fanciulla guarda in quel modo. Disgraziato colui che si trova davanti a quello sguardo!
Quel primo sguardo di un'anima che non si conosce ancora è come l'alba nel cielo: è il destarsi di qualche cosa di radioso e d'ignoto. Nulla saprebbe rendere il fascino pericoloso di quel bagliore inatteso, che rischiara vagamente ad un tratto tenebre adorabili e si compone di tutta l'innocenza del presente e di tutta la passione dell'avvenire. È una tenerezza indecisa che si rivela chissà perché e aspetta; è un agguato che l'innocenza tende a sua insaputa e nel quale essa prende i cuori, senza volerlo né saperlo; è una vergine, che guarda come una donna.
È raro che là dove esso cade non nasca una profonda meditazione da quello sguardo. Tutta la purezza e ogni ardore si concentrano in quel raggio celeste e fatale, che, più delle occhiate meglio studiate delle civette, ha il magico potere di far sbocciare subitamente nel fondo di un'anima quel fiore cupo, pieno di profumi e veleni, che si chiama l'amore.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Il avait appris l'histoire exprès pour s'indigner en connaissance de cause.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Elle laissa retomber sa tête sur les genoux de Marius et ses paupières se fermèrent. Il crut cette pauvre âme partie. Éponine restait immobile ; tout à coup, à l’instant où Marius la croyait à jamais endormie, elle ouvrit lentement ses yeux où apparaissait la sombre profondeur de la mort, et lui dit avec un accent dont la douceur semblait déjà venir d’un autre monde :

— Et puis, tenez, monsieur Marius, je crois que j’étais un peu amoureuse de vous.

Elle essaya encore de sourire et expira.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Il y a des gens qui respectent les règles de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Desconfiemos. El pasado tiene un rostro : la superstición, y una máscara : la hipocresía. Denunciemos el rostro y arranquemos la máscara.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables