Quotes from Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
... plunged into chance, --that is to say, swallowed up in Providence
- Victor Hugo
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
- Victor Hugo
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
- Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson
- Victor Hugo
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
- Victor Hugo
The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.
- Victor Hugo
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
- Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake.
- Victor Hugo
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
- Victor Hugo