Victor Hugo Quotes

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Greed puts out the sun.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some of the best fighters have come from your own planet…" "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who’s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.