Quotes from Victor Hugo
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
- Victor Hugo
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
- Victor Hugo
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
- Victor Hugo
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
- Victor Hugo
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
- Victor Hugo
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
- Victor Hugo
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
- Victor Hugo
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
- Victor Hugo
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.
- Victor Hugo
The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.
- Victor Hugo
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
- Victor Hugo