Life Quotes by Victor Hugo

Life is a voyage.

— Victor Hugo

Labor is life; thought is light.

— 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

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

— 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

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

“There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.”

— Victor Hugo

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

— Victor Hugo

“That's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall”

— Victor Hugo

“Her heart ached, but she took her resolution. It will be seen that Fantine possessed the stern courage of life.”

— Victor Hugo

“At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.”

— Victor Hugo

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark…

— Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,loved in spite of ourselves.

— Victor Hugo

“His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he…

— Victor Hugo

“During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the defeated. Hatred…

— Victor Hugo

“To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds…

— Victor Hugo

“With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that…

— Victor Hugo

“I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem.…

— Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily…

— Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake-let us say rather in…

— Victor Hugo

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our…

— Victor Hugo

“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty…

— 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

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do…

— Victor Hugo

“It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even…

— Victor Hugo

Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will;…

— Victor Hugo

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend…

— Victor Hugo

“He now clearly perceived the truth which was henceforth to be the centre of his life, namely, that while she was there,…

— Victor Hugo

“Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you…

— Victor Hugo

Progress is the life-style of man.

— Victor Hugo

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

— Victor Hugo

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

— Victor Hugo

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

— Victor Hugo

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

— Victor Hugo

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

— Victor Hugo