Quotes from Victor Hugo

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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

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.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.