“Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself...” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for oureselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
