Top 500 Victor Hugo Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”

— Victor Hugo

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2. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

3. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

— Victor Hugo

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4. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

5. “The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”

— Victor Hugo

6. “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

— Victor Hugo

7. “Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”

— Victor Hugo

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8. “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”

— Victor Hugo

9. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

— Victor Hugo

10. “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

11. “People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

— Victor Hugo

12. “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

— Victor Hugo

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13. “Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

— Victor Hugo

14. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Book Quotes, Reading Quotes, Healing Quotes

15. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Faith Quotes

16. “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”

— Victor Hugo

17. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

— Victor Hugo

18. “To love another person is to see the face of God.”

— Victor Hugo

19. “Those who do not weep, do not see.”

— Victor Hugo

20. “Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Sleep Quotes

21. “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

23. “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Quotes for Better Decisions

24. “Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Quotes About Light, Quotes About Night

25. “Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Quotes About Listening, Hurt Quotes

26. “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

— Victor Hugo

27. “To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Spirituality Quotes, Quotes About Light

28. “A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

— Victor Hugo

29. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

31. “Conscience is God present in man.”

— Victor Hugo

32. “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

33. “Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Quotes About Songs

34. “Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

35. “I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

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36. “When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”

— Victor Hugo

37. “If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!”

— Victor Hugo

38. “Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

— Victor Hugo

39. “Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”

— Victor Hugo

40. “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

— Victor Hugo

41. “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

42. “Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

— Victor Hugo

43. “What makes night within us may leave stars.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Quotes About Stars

44. “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”

— Victor Hugo

45. “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

— Victor Hugo

Featured in: Winter Quotes

46. “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.”

— Victor Hugo

47. “It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”

— Victor Hugo

48. “Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

— Victor Hugo

49. “God knows better than we do what we need.”

— Victor Hugo

50. “There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the priest.”

— Victor Hugo