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
Live
Nothing
Life
Terrible
Dies

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
Victor Hugo
Image
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo
Image
Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
Victor Hugo
Image
He does not weep who does not see.
Victor Hugo
Image
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.
Victor Hugo
Image
Labor is life thought is light.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong the blood flows freely in my veins my limbs obey my will I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
Victor Hugo
Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
Victor Hugo
Image
To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Victor Hugo
Image
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy he declared in his transport that this would last through life he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
Victor Hugo
Image
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
Victor Hugo
Image
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Victor Hugo
Image
The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo
Image
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor Hugo