Quotes about Perseverance
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
what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.
— Victor Hugo
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
— Victor Hugo
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
— Victor Hugo
It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.
— Victor Hugo
He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.
— 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
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
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
Work is the law; whoever spurns it as tiresome will have it as punishment
— Victor Hugo