1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

There is nothing as exciting as an idea whose time has come

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.