“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor hugo
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Victor Hugo
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Victor Hugo
“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.”
― Victor Hugo
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo
“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
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo
“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. –I shall feel it.”
She dropped her head again on Marius’ knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:–
“And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”
― Victor Hugo
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo
“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos
“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
“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Victor Hugo
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
― Victor Hugo
“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
― Victor Hugo
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
― Victor Hugo
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo
“Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
― Victor Hugo
“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
― Victor Hugo
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
― Victor Hugo
“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”
― Victor Hugo
“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”
― Victor Hugo
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo
“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him–he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”
― Victor Hugo
“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
― Victor Hugo
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering–a hell of boredom. ”
― Victor Hugo
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
― Victor Hugo
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo
“…Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
― Victor Hugo
“Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
― Victor Hugo
“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
― Victor Hugo
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo
“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
― Victor Hugo
“And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
― Victor Hugo