Quotes from Victor Hugo

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

I see black light (his last words)

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

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.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake.