1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Защото любовта е като дърво, тя расте от само себе си, пуща дълбоко корените си в цялото ни същество и често продължава да зеленее дори когато сърцето е опустошено.

The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a chance word, the heart insensibly empties itself of love. He who loves, perceives a decline in his happiness. There is nothing more to be dreaded than this slow exudation from the fissure in the vase.

On n'empêche pas plus la pansée de revenir à une idée que la mer de revenir à un rivage. Pour le matelot, cela s'appelle la marée; pour le coupable, cela s'appelle le remords. Dieu soulève l'âme comme l'océan.

Il y a des illusions touchantes qui sont peut-être des réalités sublimes.

La suprema dicha de la vida, es la convicción de que se es amado; amado por sí mismo, digamos mejor, ama¬do a pesar de sí mismo.

Wine, for serious drunks, enjoys only a limited success. There is, concerning inebriation, black magic and white magic; wine is only white magic.

Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.