Love Quotes by Victor Hugo

To love is to act.

— Victor Hugo

Love is the only future God offers.

— Victor Hugo

Right is right only when entire.

— Victor Hugo

Loving is half of believing.

— Victor Hugo

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

— Victor Hugo

Love is a fault; so be it.

— Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light.

— Victor Hugo

A wedding is not house-keeping.

— Victor Hugo

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

— Victor Hugo

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”

— Victor Hugo

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

— Victor Hugo

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

— Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire.

— Victor Hugo

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

— Victor Hugo

“If no one loved, the sun would go out.”

— Victor Hugo

“God decreed that the love which came to Cosette was a love that saves.”

— Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

— Victor Hugo

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

— Victor Hugo

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

— Victor Hugo

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to…

— Victor Hugo

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

— Victor Hugo

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, its boldness.

— Victor Hugo

“What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic,…

— Victor Hugo

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one…

— Victor Hugo

“Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in…

— Victor Hugo

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare…

— Victor Hugo

“It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his…

— Victor Hugo

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long…

— Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his…

— Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few…

— Victor Hugo

Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart…

— Victor Hugo

“Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing…

— Victor Hugo

Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'…

— Victor Hugo

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,…

— Victor Hugo

“For with love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma,…

— Victor Hugo

The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches…

— Victor Hugo

“It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was…

— Victor Hugo

“Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to…

— Victor Hugo

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He…

— Victor Hugo