Victor Hugo Quotes

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

Life, Time, Short

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

Thoughts, Soul, Whatever

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

Thought, Labor, Invisible

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

Love, Nature, Soul

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

Future, Nothing, Dream

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Long, Congress

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo

Human, Become, Suffering

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo

Smile, Laughter, Joy

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo

Secret, Triumphs

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo

Almost, Desires, Reveal

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
Victor Hugo

Night, Soul, Same

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

Happiness, Men, Children

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo

Woman, Deep, Once

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo

Good, Give, Both

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

Laugh, Sometimes, Suffer

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Time, Idea, Whose

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Greatest

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Education, Sense, Result

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo

Children, Deeds, Acts

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo

Wise, Old, Grow

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo

Women, True, Name

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

God, Bad, Destroy

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

Art, Freedom, Society

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Truth, Beautiful, Rise

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26, 1802

Died: May 22, 1885

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