Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 2

• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Opportunity, Names

  Speech by President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, at inauguration of National Conference of the Association for the Progress of Management, www.lamoncloa.gob.es. November 13, 2012.

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• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Free Education, Soul

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• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

  Victor Hugo

  Suicide, Wisdom, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

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• To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Balance, Harmony

  "Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Thinking, Knows

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• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

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• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wisdom, Stills

  Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

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• In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Fists, Peace And Love

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

  Victor Hugo

  Behinds

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3031, Delphi Classics

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• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  Victor Hugo

  Motivational, Success, Being Strong

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Lying, Silence

  "Les misérables".

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

  Victor Hugo

  Political, Politics, Speak

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• To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Les Mis, Terrible

  "My midlife crisis has focused me on what to do between now and death" by Clare Allan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Thinking, Tongue

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.8

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• Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Mind, Earth

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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