Quotes By Victor Hugo

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.