1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.