“Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — 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… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in all things write the word… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and… — 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
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and beyond his faith, as it were, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. The useless must be mingled with happiness.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. — 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
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“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
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
