“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
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — 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
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart… — 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
“He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For with love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All human destiny is contained in that dilemma,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to… — 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… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing… — 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