Quotes from Victor Hugo

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Life is a voyage.

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.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

And why is it that some men just can't deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their respect and still want to be thrown down on the couch and pounded like a cheap steak now and then?

At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as a celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]