Quotes from Victor Hugo

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

Love is a fault; so be it.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it's not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you've forgotten, don't keep anything.

To love is to act.

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

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

Loving is half of believing.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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.

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.