Quotes about Hope
Adorable ambuscades of providence!
— Victor Hugo
God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.
— Victor Hugo
and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.
— Victor Hugo
It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.
— Victor Hugo
The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he
— Victor Hugo
Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
— Victor Hugo
As long as there are misérables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom that can become Marat.
— Victor Hugo
He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope. He said:— Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.
— Victor Hugo
At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.
— Victor Hugo
It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.
— Victor Hugo
The presence of angels is an announcement of Paradise.
— Victor Hugo