Quotes from Victor Hugo

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Love is the only future God offers.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.