1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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 wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

It's often our best friends who make us fall

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.