Top 500 Victor Hugo Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Another story must begin!”

— Victor Hugo

152. “God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.”

— Victor Hugo

153. “When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

154. “The clouds, – the only birds that never sleep.”

— Victor Hugo

155. “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

— Victor Hugo

156. “It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.”

— Victor Hugo

157. “Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

— Victor Hugo

158. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”

— Victor Hugo

159. “As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”

— Victor Hugo

160. “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again, and great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves, and even loved in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

161. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”

— Victor Hugo

162. “When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that?”

— Victor Hugo

163. “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

164. “For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”

— Victor Hugo

165. “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

— Victor Hugo

166. “To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.”

— Victor Hugo

167. “The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”

— Victor Hugo

168. “Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”

— Victor Hugo

169. “At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.”

— Victor Hugo

170. “Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

— Victor Hugo

171. “There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.”

— Victor Hugo

172. “I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo.”

— Victor Hugo

173. “One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

174. “God is behind everything, but everything hides God.”

— Victor Hugo

175. “She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.”

— Victor Hugo

176. “La vie n’est qu’une longue perte de tout ce qu’on aime.”

— Victor Hugo

177. “I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”

— Victor Hugo

178. “The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake – let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.”

— Victor Hugo

179. “In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.”

— Victor Hugo

180. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”

— Victor Hugo

181. “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

182. “A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

183. “The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

— Victor Hugo

184. “Morality is truth in full bloom.”

— Victor Hugo

185. “The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”

— Victor Hugo

186. “One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

— Victor Hugo

187. “You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.”

— Victor Hugo

188. “She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.”

— Victor Hugo

189. “Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

— Victor Hugo

190. “A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.”

— Victor Hugo

191. “Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”

— Victor Hugo

192. “If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”

— Victor Hugo

193. “You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.”

— Victor Hugo

194. “The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.”

— Victor Hugo

195. “Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.”

— Victor Hugo

196. “Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”

— Victor Hugo

197. “First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.”

— Victor Hugo

198. “Gutenberg’s invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.”

— Victor Hugo

199. “Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”

— Victor Hugo

200. “Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.”

— Victor Hugo