Life Quotes by Victor Hugo

Life is a voyage.

— Victor Hugo

Labor is life; thought is light.

— Victor Hugo

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

— Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

— Victor Hugo

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

— Victor Hugo

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. -

— Victor Hugo

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

— Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

— Victor Hugo

Life is a flower of which love is honey.

— Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

— Victor Hugo

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

— 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 greatest happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”

— Victor Hugo

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

— Victor Hugo

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

— Victor Hugo

“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.”

— Victor Hugo

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

— Victor Hugo

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it…

— Victor Hugo

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of…

— Victor Hugo

“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond…

— Victor Hugo

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the…

— Victor Hugo

“He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the…

— Victor Hugo

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

— Victor Hugo

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama…

— Victor Hugo

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the…

— Victor Hugo

“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the…

— 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

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must…

— Victor Hugo

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,…

— Victor Hugo

“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right.…

— Victor Hugo

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

— Victor Hugo

“The four walls of the living redoubt had fallen, hardly could a quivering be detected here and there among the corpses; and…

— Victor Hugo

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course…

— 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

“Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

— Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

— Victor Hugo

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

— Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

— Victor Hugo

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

— Victor Hugo

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

— Victor Hugo