“But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have… — 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,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The four walls of the living redoubt had fallen, hardly could a quivering be detected here and there among the corpses; and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Death has but few terrors for the crushed and broken spirit; but how heavy and icy is his hand when it grasps… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Had he not had a greater purpose, the saving not of his life but of his soul, the resolve to become a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. — 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
