Victor Hugo

(1802 - 1885), skáld og svo margt fleira. Skrifaði Vesalingana og Hringjarinn frá Notre Dame. Hér eru nokkrar tilvitnanir í hann en erfitt var að velja því þetta er allt svo flott hjá honum:

 

 

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

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. - Les Miserables

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. 

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. - Les

Miserables, 1862

 

 

 

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. - Les Miserables, 1862

 

 

 

  

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.

 

 

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

 

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. -  Les Miserables

 

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.  

Athugasemdir

[Jórunn Sigurbergsdóttir , 8.2.2007 kl. 01:16]

Einn af mínu uppáhaldsskádum og þaueru mörg.

[Ragnheiður Magnúsdóttir (IP-tala skráð) 10.2.2007 kl. 18:38]

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