Time Quotes by Victor Hugo

“Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment”

— Victor Hugo

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

— Victor Hugo

“No army can stop an idea whose time has come”

— Victor Hugo

“composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is painful to break the sad links to the past”

— Victor Hugo

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”

— Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past,…

— Victor Hugo

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

— Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

— 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

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

— Victor Hugo

“Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.”

— Victor Hugo

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire…

— 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

“He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with…

— 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

“The barber in his shop, warmed by a good stove, was shaving a customer and casting from time to time a look…

— Victor Hugo

“I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already…

— Victor Hugo

Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.…

— 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

“Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is washed with daylight, I will leave. You see, I know that you wait for…

— 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

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For…

— Victor Hugo

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is…

— 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

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

— Victor Hugo

“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the…

— Victor Hugo

“He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us say in passing, to be blind and to be loved, is in fact--on this earth where nothing is complete--one of…

— Victor Hugo

“That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority…

— Victor Hugo

“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that,…

— Victor Hugo

“Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.”

— Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

— Victor Hugo

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

— Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

— Victor Hugo