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Living Quotes by Victor Hugo
- I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed…
- Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
- Those who live are those who fight.
- Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners…
- It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
- The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by…
- There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see…
- The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in…
- His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had…
- I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I…
- I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good…
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov