Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. -
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. -
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. -
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. -
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
More quotes by Victor Hugo
- Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!