Quotes about Hope
His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings
— Victor Hugo
Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.
— Victor Hugo
Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.
— Victor Hugo
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh ! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault ; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that.
— Victor Hugo
He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.
— Victor Hugo
The convict was transfigured into Christ.
— Victor Hugo
That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!
— Victor Hugo
Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing.
— Victor Hugo
Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!
— Victor Hugo
Loving is half of believing.
— Victor Hugo
We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.
— Victor Hugo
A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing.
— Victor Hugo