Les Mis Quotes

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

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

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

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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

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

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

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

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.

I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading guy who falls in love, simple and naive. Even just doing Enjolras recently in Les Mis. I used to cover Marius and thought: "Oh, that's simple. What I should be doing." But then when I got Enjolras, I hadn't even thought about it. He's more powerful, sure of himself, a leader. It was nice! It was much harder singing, passionate, declamatory. Which was awesome - and now this!

The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down.

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.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

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

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

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

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.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

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