Quotes from Victor Hugo

Love is the only future God offers.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!

God knows better than we do what we need.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.