69 Les Miserable Quotes

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Famous Les Miserable Quotes

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. — Seneca

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. — Seneca

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. — Boethius

Misery is a communicable disease. - Martha Graham

Misery is a communicable disease. — Martha Graham

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them. — Brandi Glanville

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. — Boethius

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life. — Zig Ziglar

All human happiness and misery take the form of action. — Aristotle

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you! — Dr. Seuss

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. — Harry Kalas

Change is hard, being miserable is harder. — Bryan Johnson

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. — John Milton

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! — Robert Burns

Short Les Miserable Quotes

  • Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. — Bertrand Russell
  • Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. — Lester Levenson
  • It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable. — Scottish Proverbs
  • Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
Les miserable quote We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Les Mis Quotes

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. — Victor Hugo

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

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. — Victor Hugo

Les miserable quote Be miserable. Or motivate yourself whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it. — Victor Hugo

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. — Victor Hugo

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him. — Victor Hugo

Les miserable quote The day being miserable starts solving problems, is the day I'll rush to the front of the misery lin
The day being miserable starts solving problems, is the day I'll rush to the front of the misery line.

Not being heard is no reason for silence. — Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die. — Victor Hugo

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume. — Victor Hugo

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More Les Miserable Quotes

Those who do not weep, do not see. — Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! — Victor Hugo

Les miserable quote Les obstacles sont inventés pour être vaincus.
Les obstacles sont inventés pour être vaincus.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping. — Alicia Vikander

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. — Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. — Victor Hugo

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar. — Victor Hugo

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. — Victor Hugo

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory. — Victor Hugo

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul. — Victor Hugo

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think. — Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls. — Victor Hugo

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables — Victor Hugo

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions. — Victor Hugo

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer. — Victor Hugo

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die. — Victor Hugo

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing. — Victor Hugo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well. — Victor Hugo

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. — Victor Hugo

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.' — America Ferrera

Anne Hathaway you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars. — Tina Fey

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade. — Josh Young

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world. — Dexter Fletcher

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories — Larry King

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.' — Marsha Norman

I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom. — Corey Taylor

This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like Les Miserables. The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout. — Lindy Booth

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.' — Samantha Barks

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. — Ashley Tisdale

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