Death Quotes by Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.”

— Victor Hugo

I was dying when you came.

— Victor Hugo

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

— Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”

— Victor Hugo

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

— Victor Hugo

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

— Victor Hugo

“CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE”

— Victor Hugo

Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

— Victor Hugo

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

— Victor Hugo

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

— Victor Hugo

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

— Victor Hugo

“At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” ― Les miserables”

— Victor Hugo

“She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.”

— Victor Hugo

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

— Victor Hugo

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go…

— Victor Hugo

“The child entered the hut. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - "I…

— Victor Hugo

“He did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the whole, for these petty contradictions of…

— Victor Hugo

“You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that…

— Victor Hugo

“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind…

— Victor Hugo

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their…

— Victor Hugo

“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we…

— Victor Hugo

“There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They…

— Victor Hugo

“Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under…

— Victor Hugo

“He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would…

— Victor Hugo

“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and…

— Victor Hugo

“You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that…

— Victor Hugo

“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the…

— Victor Hugo

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our…

— Victor Hugo

“What astonished me greatly was, that though he believed that he was under sentence of death, he made no effort to avail…

— Victor Hugo

“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions…

— Victor Hugo

“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel…

— Victor Hugo

“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown…

— Victor Hugo

“Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an…

— Victor Hugo

“Death has but few terrors for the crushed and broken spirit; but how heavy and icy is his hand when it grasps…

— Victor Hugo

“All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything,…

— Victor Hugo

“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between…

— Victor Hugo

“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be…

— Victor Hugo

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

“Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?”

— Victor Hugo