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Victor Hugo Quotes About Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo Quotes About Spiritual

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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 that we live.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

More Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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