Quotes about Connection
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
— Victor Hugo
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
— Victor Hugo
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
— Victor Hugo
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
— Victor Hugo
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
— Victor Hugo
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
— 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
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo
All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. Suffocation of the soul.
— Victor Hugo
To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth
— Victor Hugo
His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.
— Victor Hugo