Victor Hugo
104 quotes
Biography
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
"Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love."
"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."
"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable."
"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."
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
"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. God is awake."
"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"Those who do not weep, do not see."
"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
"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."
"...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven."
"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
"I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning."