The Best Victor Hugo quotes

To love is to act. — Victor Hugo

Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich. — Victor Hugo

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

To love is the half of to believe. — Victor Hugo

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you. — Victor Hugo

Love is the only future God offers. — Victor Hugo

Love is a fault; so be it. — Victor Hugo

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness. — Victor Hugo

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

What love commences can be finished by God alone. — Victor Hugo

Love is reducing the universe to one being. — Victor Hugo

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

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. — Victor Hugo

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. — Victor Hugo

Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. — Victor Hugo

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing. — Victor Hugo

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. — Victor Hugo

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. — Victor Hugo

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light. — Victor Hugo

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. — Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo

Nobody loves the light like the blind man. — Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light. — Victor Hugo

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light. — Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive…. We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. — Victor Hugo

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness. — Victor Hugo

In the domain of art there is no light without heat. — Victor Hugo

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns. — Victor Hugo

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth. — Victor Hugo

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb. — Victor Hugo

Labor is life; thought is light. — Victor Hugo

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius. — Victor Hugo

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man’s guiding lights. — Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul. — Victor Hugo

The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. — Victor Hugo

A breath of Paris preserves the soul. — Victor Hugo

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. — Victor Hugo

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. — Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls. — Victor Hugo

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul. — Victor Hugo

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul. — Victor Hugo

To breathe Paris is to preserve one’s soul. — Victor Hugo

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth. — Victor Hugo

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state. — Victor Hugo

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul. — Victor Hugo

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul. — Victor Hugo

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. — Victor Hugo

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason. — Victor Hugo

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. — Victor Hugo

On the one side blind force, on the other a soul. — Victor Hugo

Dream no small Dreams. they have no power to stir the souls of men. — Victor Hugo

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. — Victor Hugo

A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts. — Victor Hugo

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. — Victor Hugo

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man. — Victor Hugo

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. — Victor Hugo

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield. — Victor Hugo

For sight is woman–like and shuns the old. — Victor Hugo

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God. — Victor Hugo

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman. — Victor Hugo

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.’ from chapter VIII of Les Miserables — 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. — Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. — Victor Hugo

Women are more credulous than men. — Victor Hugo

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. — Victor Hugo

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. — Victor Hugo

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open. — Victor Hugo

It was all over with him. Marius loved a woman. His destiny was entering upon the unknown. — Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. — Victor Hugo

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. — Victor Hugo

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. — Victor Hugo

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo

For the heart, too, has its hunger. — Victor Hugo

There is a secret drawer in every woman’s heart. — Victor Hugo

When the heart is dry the eye is dry. — Victor Hugo

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! — Victor Hugo

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness. — Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. — Victor Hugo

The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses. — Victor Hugo

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit. — Victor Hugo

As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. — Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. — Victor Hugo

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. — Victor Hugo

It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. — Victor Hugo

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine. — Victor Hugo

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. — Victor Hugo

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo

Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you. — Victor Hugo

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance. — Victor Hugo

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. — Victor Hugo

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. — Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share. — Victor Hugo

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. — Victor Hugo

It is by suffering that human beings become angels. — Victor Hugo

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. — Victor Hugo

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them. — Victor Hugo

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. — Victor Hugo

I didn’t believe it could be so monstrous. It’s wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing? — Victor Hugo

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. — Victor Hugo

Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it. — Victor Hugo

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

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life. — Victor Hugo

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. — Victor Hugo

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. — Victor Hugo

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances. — Victor Hugo

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

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life. — Victor Hugo

But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one’s life, one must earn the means for life. — Victor Hugo

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. — Victor Hugo

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. — Victor Hugo

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. — Victor Hugo

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness. — Victor Hugo

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. — Victor Hugo

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life. — Victor Hugo

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. — Victor Hugo

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. — Victor Hugo

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies cAn be resisted, but not An idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. — Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant. — Victor Hugo

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. — Victor Hugo

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. — Victor Hugo

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo

Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity. — Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart. — Victor Hugo

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. — Victor Hugo

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation. — Victor Hugo