Quotes about Hope
If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
— Victor Hugo
Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo
Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.
— Victor Hugo
God decreed that the love which came to Cosette was a love that saves.
— Victor Hugo
Confiar es a veces abandonar.
— Victor Hugo
What have we to fear, we who believe?
— Victor Hugo
Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.
— Victor Hugo
The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.
— Victor Hugo
Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.
— Victor Hugo
The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.
— Victor Hugo
Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.
— Victor Hugo
A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare.
— Victor Hugo