55 result(s) for Victor Hugo Quotes.
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul..."
"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
"Joy’s smile, it seems to me, is the same as the sun’s searching rays on a winter day."
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
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"You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience."
"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go."
"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."
"To think is of itself to act."
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."
"The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness."
"People do not lack strength; they lack will."
"You who suffer because you love, love still more."
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."
"Toleration is the best religion."
"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 sleep in peace."
"The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius."
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"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces."
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
"Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter."
"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
"Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face."
"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
"To love beauty is to see light."
"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
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"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."
"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
"To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
"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 sleep in peace."
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees."
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."
"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
"Those who do not weep, do not see."
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