1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Those who live are those who fight.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding, ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.