Victor Hugo quotes

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.
- Victor Hugo

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
- Victor Hugo

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
- Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Victor Hugo

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

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
- Victor Hugo

Not being heard is no reason for silence.
- Victor Hugo

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
- Victor Hugo

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
- Victor Hugo

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
- Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
- Victor Hugo

He who abandons the field is beaten.
- Victor Hugo

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.
- Victor Hugo

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
- Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
- Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
- Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.
- Victor Hugo

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.
- Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo