Victor Hugo: Quotes about God

Victor Hugo was French poet, novelist, and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on god.

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“To love another person is to see the face of God.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Source: Les Misérables

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.”

Victor Hugo Hernani

Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur! <br class="br">Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Hernani#ACTE_4

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

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Love is the only future God offers.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“God knows better than we do what we need.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.”

“One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”

Victor Hugo book The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Source: The Last Day of a Condemned Man

“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 book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“… It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“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 book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had nothewould be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has aThisof the infinite is God.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.”

Victor Hugo book William Shakespeare

Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l’univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l’homme. La deuxième manifestation n’est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s’appelle la Nature, la deuxième s’appelle l’Art.

Part I, Book II, Chapter I
William Shakespeare (1864)

“Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!”

"The Battle of Waterloo", reported in Oliver Ernesto Branch, ed., The Hamilton Speaker (1878), p. 53