1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

A library implies an act of faith.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.