Quotes by Hugo, Victor

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of t >>

It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is >>

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. >>

Quotations about Prison

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragil >>

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow >>

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we >>

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?

Hugo, Victor