Quotes about Divine
Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.
— Victor Hugo
Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
— Victor Hugo
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.
— Victor Hugo
Is there not in every human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish?
— Victor Hugo
It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.
— Victor Hugo
I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
The presence of angels is an announcement of Paradise.
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
— Victor Hugo
Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.
— Victor Hugo
Sleep in Peace, God is awake.
— Victor Hugo