Quotes about Love
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent.
— Victor Hugo
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
— Victor Hugo
For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
— Victor Hugo
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
— Victor Hugo
What love commences can be finished by God alone.
— Victor Hugo
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
— 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
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
— Victor Hugo
When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
— Victor Hugo
The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life's morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?
— Victor Hugo
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
— Victor Hugo