Quotes from Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Conscience is God present in man.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.