--- title: "4 Anguish Quotes By Victor Hugo" description: "4 Anguish quotes by Victor Hugo. Plus more from Victor Hugo and more Anguish sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/victor-hugo-32_anguish_in-this-way-his-unhappy-soul-struggled-w_148610.jpg" --- > [In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/in-this-way-his-unhappy-soul-struggled-with-its-anguish-eighteen/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/victor-hugo-32_anguish_in-this-way-his-unhappy-soul-struggled-w_148610.jpg) > [“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/happy-even-in-anguish-is-he-to-whom-god-has-given-a-soul-worthy-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/victor-hugo-32_anguish_happy-even-in-anguish-is-he-to-whom-god_2250857.jpg) > [He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-saw-before-him-two-roads-both-equally-straight-but-he-saw-two-and/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55f/victor-hugo-32_anguish_he-saw-before-him-two-roads-both-equally_2358110.jpg) > [Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/before-him-he-saw-two-roads-both-equally-straight-but-he-did-see-two/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b34/victor-hugo-32_anguish_before-him-he-saw-two-roads-both-equally_3200356.jpg) ## Other authors on Anguish - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-eliot-37652.jpg) George Eliot 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anguish/george-eliot/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anguish/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-emily-dickinson-33058.jpg) Emily Dickinson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anguish/emily-dickinson/) - [Charlotte Bronte 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anguish/charlotte-bronte/) ## More by Victor Hugo > [Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/houses-are-like-the-human-beings-that-inhabit-them/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead-festival-it-has-been-happy/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-caught-her-she-fell-he-caught-her-in-his-arms-he-held-her-tightly/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/first-i-loved-women-then-animals-and-now-i-love-stones-they-re-just/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/nature-is-pitiless-she-never-withdraws-her-flowers-her-music-her/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/have-courage-for-the-great-sorrows-of-life-and-patience-for-the-small/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-peasants-of-the-asturias-believe-that-in-every-litter-of-wolves/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/great-blunders-are-often-made-like-large-ropes-of-a-multitude-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/for-love-is-like-a-tree-it-grows-of-itself-it-send-its-roots-deep/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/blacheville-smiles-with-the-self-satisfied-smugness-of-a-man-whose/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/loving-in-ignorance-she-loved-with-all-the-more-passion-she-did-not/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/laughter-is-the-sun-that-drives-winter-from-the-human-face/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/our-joys-have-shadows-the-perfect-smile-belongs-to-god-alone/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-those-we-love-are-in-question-our-prudence-invents-every-sort-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Love is a fault; so be it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-is-a-fault-so-be-it/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anguish/victor-hugo/#itemlist", "name": "4 Anguish Quotes By Victor Hugo", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. 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