Victor Hugo

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

—Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

—Victor Hugo

To love is to act.

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

—Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of our selves.

—Victor Hugo

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

—Victor Hugo

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

—Victor Hugo

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

—Victor Hugo

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. God is awake.

—Victor Hugo

When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.

—Victor Hugo

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

—Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

—Victor Hugo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

—Victor Hugo