Victor Hugo Quotes

She gives gifts the way other people steal: in secret and for the thrill of it.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”

There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The power of a glance... It is in this way that love begins, and in this way only... Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.

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

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

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.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

To love another person is to see the face of God

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

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.