Quote

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

Victor Hugo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
Dies
Live
Nothing
Life
Terrible

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo
Image
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
Victor Hugo
Image
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
Image
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Victor Hugo
Image
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
Image
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo
Image
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
Victor Hugo
Image
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
Image
He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
Image
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo
Image
I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
Victor Hugo
Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
Victor Hugo
Image
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
Victor Hugo
Image
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
Victor Hugo
Image
We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
Victor Hugo
Image
When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
Victor Hugo