Quotes from Victor Hugo
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
- Victor Hugo
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
- Victor Hugo
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
- Victor Hugo
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
- Victor Hugo
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
- Victor Hugo
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
- Victor Hugo
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
- Victor Hugo
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
- Victor Hugo
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
- Victor Hugo