“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
“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
– 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
“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
“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
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
– Victor Hugo
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
– 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
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
– Victor Hugo
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?”
– Victor Hugo
“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
– Victor Hugo
“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”
– Victor Hugo
“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
– Victor Hugo
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
– Victor Hugo
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
– 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
“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.”
– Victor Hugo
“There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”
– 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
“To love beauty is to see light.”
– Victor Hugo
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
– 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
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
– 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
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
– Victor Hugo
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
– Victor Hugo
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
– Victor Hugo
“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
– Victor Hugo
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
– Victor Hugo