Les Misérables Quotes

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

He was at the point, the last stage of despair when pain is no longer active; the soul, as it were, has grown numb.

Unwitting innocence is sometimes more penetrating than cunning.

He was no longer pale but deathly white, and instead of tears in his eyes there was a sort of tragic flame.

When it's people you love, the words don't matter; the sound of their voices is enough.

To love is an accomplishment.

All I want is for everyone to be rich and happy.

There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.

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Love is the folly of men and the wisdom of God.

Cosette and Marius saw one another again. What it meant to them we shall not attempt to say. There are things beyond description.

To feel emotion was terrible. To be carved in stone, the very figure of chastisement, and to discover suddenly under the granite of our face something contradictory that is almost a heart. To return good for good that hitherto one had held to be evil; to see a pincer become a hand with fingers that parted. To let go! The man of action had lost his way.

He was forced to admit that kindness existed.

He contemplated with horror the rising of a new sun--an owl requiring to see with eagle's eyes.

But his greatest anguish was the loss of certainty. He had been torn up by the roots. The code he lived by was in fragments in his hand.

There are occasions when we find ourselves with an abyss on either side, and this was one of them.