# Quote — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

> He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange,
>
> He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel.
>
> The thing came to pass simply,
>
> Of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.

- Author: [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md)
- Book: [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md)
- Original (fr): Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange, / Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n’eut plus son ange, / La chose simplement d’elle-même arriva, / Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s’en va.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables#Chapter_VI_-_Grass_Hides_And_Rain_Blots_Out) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/he-sleeps-although

## More from this book

> Never am I seen with coats bedizened with gold and gems; I leave this false splendour to badly organized minds.

p. 1027 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/never-am-i-seen.md)

> It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/it-is-nothing.md)

> The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

p. 968 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/the-soul-does.md)