Quotes from 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.

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.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

Make thought a whirlwind.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

God knows better than we do what we need.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.