300+ Victor Hugo Quotes About Love, Life And Happiness

Victor Hugo Quotes

Victor Hug is best known for his quotes and sayings in poems and novels. His Quotes on Love, Life, Happiness, and many more have inspired many people from all walks of life.

Best Victor Hugo Quotes

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

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. – Victor Hugo
• A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. – Victor Hugo, ‘ Les Miserables’.
• 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. – Victor Hugo
• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. – 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. – Victor Hugo
• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. – 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. – Victor Hugo
• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. – 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
• 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
• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – Victor Hugo

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo
• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
• When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. – Victor Hugo
• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo
• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. – Victor Hugo
• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo
• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still, she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. – Victor Hugo
• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. – Victor Hugo
• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. – Victor Hugo
• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. – Victor Hugo
• Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo
• It is by suffering that human beings become angels. – Victor Hugo
• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo
• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. – Victor Hugo
• To love beauty is to see light. – Victor Hugo
• 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. – Victor Hugo
• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo
• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
• Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – Victor Hugo
• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. – Victor Hugo
• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. – Victor Hugo
• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo
• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. – Victor Hugo
• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. – Victor Hugo
• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. – Victor Hugo
• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. – 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. – Victor Hugo
• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. – Victor Hugo
• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. – Victor Hugo
• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. – Victor Hugo
• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. – Victor Hugo
• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo
• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. – 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
• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. – Victor Hugo
• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo
• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo
• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo
• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul. – Victor Hugo
• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. – Victor Hugo
• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo Quote Education)
• Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. – Victor Hugo
• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. – Victor Hugo
• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. – Victor Hugo
• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. – Victor Hugo
• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. – Victor Hugo
• To love is to act. – Victor Hugo
• To think of shadows is a serious thing. – Victor Hugo
• The flesh is the surface of the unknown. – Victor Hugo
• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. – Victor Hugo
• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. – Victor Hugo
• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. – Victor Hugo
• Liberation is not deliverance. – Victor Hugo
• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. – Victor Hugo
• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo
• A great artist is a great man in a great child. – Victor Hugo
• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. – 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
• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. – Victor Hugo
• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. – Victor Hugo
• Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. – Victor Hugo
• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. – 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
• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. – Victor Hugo
• No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. Vi– Victor Hugo
• There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. – Victor Hugo
• To contemplate is to look at shadows. – 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. – Victor Hugo
• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. – Victor Hugo
• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo
• Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. – Victor Hugo
• Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter. – Victor Hugo
• Those who live are those who fight. – Victor Hugo
• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. – Victor Hugo
• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. – Victor Hugo
• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. – Victor Hugo
• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo
• Stupidity talks, vanity acts. – Victor Hugo
• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. – Victor Hugo
• No one can keep a secret better than a child. – Victor Hugo
• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. – Victor Hugo
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo
• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. – Victor Hugo
• Conscience is God present in man. – Victor Hugo
• A war between Europeans is a civil war. – Victor Hugo
• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. – Victor Hugo
• Toleration is the best religion. – Victor Hugo
• The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. – Victor Hugo
• The learned man knows that he is ignorant. – Victor Hugo
• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo
• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. – Victor Hugo
• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo
• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo
• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. – Victor Hugo
• A library implies an act of faith. – Victor Hugo
• Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. – Victor Hugo
• Many great actions are committed in small struggles. – Victor Hugo
• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. – Victor Hugo
• When liberty returns, I will return. – Victor Hugo
• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. – Victor Hugo
• Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo
• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. – Victor Hugo
• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. – Victor Hugo
• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. – Victor Hugo
• Thought is more than a right – it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. – Victor Hugo
• A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. – 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
• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. – Victor Hugo
• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. – Victor Hugo
• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. – Victor Hugo
• Genius: the superhuman in man. – Victor Hugo
• Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. – Victor Hugo
• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. – Victor Hugo
• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!. – Victor Hugo
• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. – Victor Hugo
• Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. – Victor Hugo
• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. – Victor Hugo
• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. – Victor Hugo
• I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses. – Victor Hugo
• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo
• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. – Victor Hugo
• I’m religiously opposed to religion. – Victor Hugo
• Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. – Victor Hugo
• There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. – Victor Hugo
• I would have liked to be – indeed, I should have been – a second Rembrandt. – Victor Hugo
• Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. – Victor Hugo
• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. – Victor Hugo
• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. – Victor Hugo
• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. – Victor Hugo
• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. – Victor Hugo
• To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo
• Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – 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 am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! – Victor Hugo
• The ox suffers, the cart complains. – Victor Hugo
• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. – Victor Hugo
• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. – Victor Hugo
• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. – Victor Hugo
• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. – Victor Hugo
• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. – Victor Hugo
• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. – Victor Hugo
• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. – Victor Hugo
• Wisdom is a sacred communion. – Victor Hugo
• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo
• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. – Victor Hugo
• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. – Victor Hugo
• Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! – Victor Hugo
• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. – Victor Hugo
• 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. – Victor Hugo
• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. – Victor Hugo
• Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. – Victor Hugo
• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. – Victor Hugo
• Taste is the common sense of genius. – Victor Hugo
• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. – Victor Hugo
• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo
• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. – Victor Hugo
• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. – Victor Hugo
• One believes others will do what he will do to himself. – Victor Hugo
• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don’t always succeed. – Victor Hugo
• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. – Victor Hugo
• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. – Victor Hugo
• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. – Victor Hugo
• Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. – Victor Hugo
• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. – Victor Hugo
• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers? – Victor Hugo
• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. – Victor Hugo
• My childhood began, as everybody’s childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. – Victor Hugo
• One sometimes says: ‘He killed himself because he was bored with life.’ One ought rather to say: ‘He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.’ – Victor Hugo
• Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. – Victor Hugo
• Despotism is a long crime. – Victor Hugo
• “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo Quote about Music)
• “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’.
• “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” – Victor Hugo
• “To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live.” – Victor Hugo
• “To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further there is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” – Victor Hugo
• “At the end-of-life death is a departure; but at life’s beginning a departure is death.” – Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’.
• “The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the faint-hearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.” – Victor Hugo
• ” There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
• “Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.” – Victor Hugo
• “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” – Victor Hugo
• “Progress must believe in the face of God. The good cannot be served by impiety. An atheist is an evil leader of the human race.” – Victor Hugo
• “And you will keep me safe and you will keep me close and rain’ll make the flowers grow.” – Victor Hugo
• “Ladies, a second piece of advice – do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.” – Victor Hugo
• “The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.” – Victor Hugo
• “To put everything in balance is good; to put everything in harmony is better.” – Victor Hugo
• “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.” – Victor Hugo, ‘ Les Miserables’.
• “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.” – Victor Hugo
• “For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.” – Victor Hugo
• “Whom man kills God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life.” – Victor Hugo
• “Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.” – Victor Hugo
• “Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. -I shall feel it.” – Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’.
• “There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.” – Victor Hugo
• “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” – Victor Hugo
• “Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.” – Victor Hugo
• “What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul.” – Victor Hugo
• “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.” – Victor Hugo
• “The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation’s effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius”– Victor Hugo
• “Love is the foolishness of man and the wisdom of God.” – Victor Hugo
• “Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.” – 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.” – 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.” – Victor Hugo
• “I find pleasure in looking at an uncultivated field; it represents possibilities.” – Victor Hugo
• “Adversity makes men and prosperity makes monsters”– Victor Hugo
• “There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance”– Victor Hugo
• “I’d rather be hissed at for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.” – Victor Hugo
• “A study can be made against invasion by an army. No stand can be made against invasion by an idea.” – Victor Hugo
• “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” – Victor Hugo
• “In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fists none”– Victor Hugo, ‘The Toilers Of The Sea’.
• “What is fright by night is curiosity by day.” – Victor Hugo
• “Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.” – Victor Hugo
• “The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.” – Victor Hugo
• “Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.” – Victor Hugo
• “You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.” – Victor Hugo, ‘ Les Miserables’.
• “To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.” – Victor Hugo
• “I was dying when you came.” – Victor Hugo
• “Those who do not weep, do not see.” – Victor Hugo
• “A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest’s door should always be open.” – Victor Hugo
• “To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.” – Victor Hugo
• “If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!” – Victor Hugo
• “Women play with beauty, the way children play with their knives. They wound themselves with it.” – Victor Hugo
• “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love is to live by it.” – Victor Hugo
• “There is nothing like a dream to create a future.” – Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’.
• “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” – Victor Hugo
• “To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.” – Victor Hugo

  Famous Victor Hugo Quotes About Life

Explore the best victor Hugo quotes about how he views life and how he lived it. Read on to help you feel more hopeful and inspired to live the best life you ever live.

• “He who knows the answer to this knows all things.” – Victor Hugo
• “A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.” – Victor Hugo
• “I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” – Victor Hugo
• “No fear, no regrets.” – Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’.
• “If people do not love one another, I don’t see what use there would be in having spring.” – 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.” – Victor Hugo
• “He sought to transform the grief that looks down into the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars. “– Victor Hugo
• “The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to a god, this is love.” – Victor Hugo
• “Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
• “Our lives dream the utopia, our death achieves the ideal.” – Victor Hugo
• “Life is a theater set in which there are but few practicable entrances.” – Victor Hugo
• “People do not read stupidities with impunity.” – Victor Hugo
• “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end, finds the light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end, finds God.” – Victor Hugo
• “When we hear voices that we love, we need not understand the words they say.” – Victor Hugo
• “The greatest acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.” – Victor Hugo
• “God has set his intentions in flowers, in the dawn, in spring, it is his will that we should love.” – Victor Hugo
• “Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.” – Victor Hugo
• “What makes night within us may leave stars.” – Victor Hugo
• “Reason is intelligence taking exercise.” – Victor Hugo
• “Not being heard is no reason for silence.” – Victor Hugo
• “First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.” – Victor Hugo
• “You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.” – Victor Hugo
• “Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men”– Victor Hugo
• “Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.” – Victor Hugo
• “I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.” – Victor Hugo
• “His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.” – Victor Hugo
• “No one will understand so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.” – Victor Hugo
• “Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.” – Victor Hugo
• “A shadow is hard to be seized by throat and dash to the ground.” – Victor Hugo
• “There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas”– Victor Hugo
• “The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not yet permeate it.” – Victor Hugo
• “Progress is the stride of God.” – Victor Hugo

    Famous Victor Hugo Love Quotes

Are you enjoying these Victor Hugo Quotes, find more on how he relates to love and pain. He explains the value of love and how important it is to love and be loved.

• “To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.” – Victor Hugo
• Victor had a passion for expressing pain in love, he beautifully portrays the relationship between love and pain in his quotes.
• “Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
• “… where there is no more hope, the song remains.” – Victor Hugo
• “Joy is the reflex of terror.” – Victor Hugo
• “God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.” – Victor Hugo
• “Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.” – Victor Hugo
• “Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit”– Victor Hugo
• “They say love is the blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.” – Victor Hugo
• “She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.” – Victor Hugo
• “Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them if only to avoid them.” – 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 the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?” – Victor Hugo
• “Love is a fault; so be it.” – Victor Hugo
• “England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.” – Victor Hugo
• “‘Monsieur’ to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.” – Victor Hugo
• “To die of love is to live by it.” – Victor Hugo, ‘Les Miserables’.
• “There are things stronger than the strongest man.” – Victor Hugo
• “People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.” – Victor Hugo
• “Concision in style, precision in thought, the decision in life.” – Victor Hugo
• “To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.” – Victor Hugo
• “Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.” – Victor Hugo
• “Another story must begin!” – Victor Hugo
• “Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?” – Victor Hugo
• “Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.” – Victor Hugo
• “The eyes cannot see God well except through tears.” – Victor Hugo
• “Are you afraid of the good you might do?” – Victor Hugo
• “Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.” – Victor Hugo
• “As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.” – Victor Hugo
• “I think, therefore I doubt.” – Victor Hugo
• “Everything bows to success, even grammar. – Victor Hugo
• “The flesh is the ashes, the soul is the flame.” – Victor Hugo
• “Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?” – Victor Hugo
• “There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.” – Victor Hugo
• “Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.” – Victor Hugo
• “Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.” – Victor Hugo
• “Life is a voyage.” – Victor Hugo
• “People do not lack strength; they lack will.” – Victor Hugo
• “I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.” – Victor Hugo
• “There are no weeds and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.” – Victor Hugo
• “There is an unspeakable dawn in a happy old age.” – Victor Hugo

Quick Facts You Didn’t Know About Victor Hugo

• Victor Hugo published his first novel, Han d’Islande in 1823.
• His Star Sign was Pisces
• He was the third son of Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trebuchet
• He lost two sons between 1871 and 1873
• Victor Hugo e was stricken with cerebral congestion in 1878.
• His father was a military officer who later served as a general under Napoleon.
• Victor Hugo studied law between 1815 and 1818, though he never committed himself to legal practice.
• The street on which he lived was renamed Avenue Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1882.
• Les Misérables is one of the best-known works of 19th-century literature.
• His later works are somewhat darker than his earlier writing, focusing on themes of God, Satan, and death
• Victor Hugo’s net worth is approximately $1.5 Million.
• The birthplace of Victor Hugo was Besançon, France
• The color of Victor Hugo’s eyes was brown.

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