Quotes about Hope
He who despairs is wrong.
— Victor Hugo
Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
— Victor Hugo
A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
— Victor Hugo
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
— Victor Hugo
Good night! Good night! Far flies the light; But still God's love Shall shine above, Making all bright, Good night! Good night!
— Victor Hugo
So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity, He also, while the olive trees were shivering in the fierce breathe of the Infinite, had long put away from his hand the fearful chalice that appeared before him, dripping with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths.
— Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
— Victor Hugo
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo
I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. *Fantine
— Victor Hugo
He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.
— Victor Hugo
Il y a des illusions touchantes qui sont peut-être des réalités sublimes.
— Victor Hugo
If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
— Victor Hugo