Quotes by Victor Hugo

Explore a curated collection of 180 quotes by Victor Hugo. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of — Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished y — 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
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. — Victor Hugo
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substan — Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." — Victor Hugo
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. — Victor Hugo
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can ap — Victor Hugo
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal — Victor Hugo
From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, — Victor Hugo
I see black light (his last words) — Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo
victor hugo, Les Contemplations, MorsJe vis cette faucheuse. Elle était dans son champ. Elle allait à grands pas moisson — Victor Hugo
A writer is a world trapped in a person. — Victor Hugo
So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will — Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. — Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the — Victor Hugo