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| Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.--Victor Hugo |
Victor-Marie Hugo (1802–1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. His
most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les
Misérables (1862). He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers
of all time.
Here is A selection of some of VICTOR HUGO most famous quotes. VICTOR HUGO
Quotes About
Love, Happiness and Marriage, Music, Education & Love at first sight.
Victor Hugo Famous Quotes & Sayings
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.一>Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.一>Victor Hugo
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.一>Victor Hugo
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.一>Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.一>Victor Hugo
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.一>Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.一>Victor Hugo
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.一>Victor Hugo
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.一>Victor Hugo
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.一>Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.一>Victor Hugo
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
Not being heard is no reason for silence.一>Victor Hugo
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.一>Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.一>Victor Hugo
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.一>Victor Hugo
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.一>Victor Hugo
What makes night within us may leave stars.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.一>Victor Hugo
Those who do not weep, do not see.一>Victor Hugo
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.一>Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!一>Victor Hugo
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.一>Victor Hugo
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.一>Victor Hugo
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.一>Victor Hugo
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.一>Victor Hugo
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.一>Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.一>Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.一>Victor Hugo
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.一>Victor Hugo
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.一>Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.一>Victor Hugo
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.一>Victor Hugo
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.一>Victor Hugo
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.一>Victor Hugo
People do not lack strength, they lack will.一>Victor Hugo
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spri.一>Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.一>Victor Hugo
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.一>Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.一>Victor Hugo
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.一>Victor Hugo
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.一>Victor Hugo
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.一>Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.一>Victor Hugo
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.一>Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.一>Victor Hugo
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.一>Victor Hugo
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.一>Victor Hugo
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it.一>Victor Hugo
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.一>Victor Hugo
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.一>Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.一>Victor Hugo
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.一>Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.一>Victor Hugo
But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.一>Victor Hugo
He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.一>Victor Hugo
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.一>Victor Hugo
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.一>Victor Hugo
The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.一>Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.一>Victor Hugo
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.一>Victor Hugo
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.一>Victor Hugo
We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.一>Victor Hugo
To Love is to act.一>Victor Hugo
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.一>Victor Hugo
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.一>Victor Hugo
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.一>Victor Hugo
Those who live are those who fight.一>Victor Hugo
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.一>Victor Hugo
To think of shadows is a serious thing.一>Victor Hugo
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.一>Victor Hugo
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.一>Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.一>Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.一>Victor Hugo
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.一>Victor Hugo
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.一>Victor Hugo
Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.一>Victor Hugo
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.一>Victor Hugo
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.一>Victor Hugo
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.一>Victor Hugo
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.一>Victor Hugo
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.一>Victor Hugo
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.一>Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.一>Victor Hugo
Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!一>Victor Hugo
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.一>Victor Hugo
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.一>Victor Hugo
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.一>Victor Hugo
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.一>Victor Hugo
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.一>Victor Hugo
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.一>Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.一>Victor Hugo
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.一>Victor Hugo
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.一>Victor Hugo
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.一>Victor Hugo
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.一>Victor Hugo
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.一>Victor Hugo
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