Quotes from Victor Hugo
Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
— Victor Hugo
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
— Victor Hugo
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
— Victor Hugo
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
— Victor Hugo
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
— Victor Hugo
God knows better than we do what we need.
— Victor Hugo
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
— Victor Hugo
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
— Victor Hugo
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
— Victor Hugo
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
— Victor Hugo