Quotes from Victor Hugo
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
- Victor Hugo
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
- Victor Hugo
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
- Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- Victor Hugo
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
- Victor Hugo
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
- Victor Hugo
When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
- Victor Hugo
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
- Victor Hugo
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
- Victor Hugo
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
- Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
- Victor Hugo