1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.