Victor Hugo Quotes

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.