Quotes from Victor Hugo
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
- Victor Hugo
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
- Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
- Victor Hugo
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
- Victor Hugo
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Victor Hugo
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
- Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
- Victor Hugo
Those who do not weep, do not see.
- Victor Hugo
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
- Victor Hugo
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo