Quote

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

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
Ordeal
Ordeals
Beloved
Supreme
Loss
Rather

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
Victor Hugo
Image
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
Victor Hugo
Image
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo
Image
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body later the body is taken long before the soul sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
Victor Hugo
Image
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Image
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
Victor Hugo
Image
He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo
Image
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
Victor Hugo
Image
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo
Image
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
Victor Hugo
Image
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
Victor Hugo
Image
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Victor Hugo
Image
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
Victor Hugo
Image
To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
Victor Hugo
Image
Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
Victor Hugo
Image
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
Image
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
Victor Hugo
Image
Algebra applies to the clouds.
Victor Hugo
Image
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
Victor Hugo
Image
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
Victor Hugo