Quotes about Connection
The supreme happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves - say rather, loved in spite of ourselves
— Victor Hugo
Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes.
— Victor Hugo
He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went to sleep with it on his lips. I feel her whole soul in it! he exclaimed. The handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply dropped it from his pocket.
— Victor Hugo
Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
— Victor Hugo
Oh, love! That is to be two, and yet one. A man and a woman joined, as into an angel; that is heaven!
— Victor Hugo
He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
— Victor Hugo
If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
— Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God
— Victor Hugo
All the birds that fly hold the thread of infinity in their claws. Germination
— Victor Hugo
The reduction of the universe to one single being, the expansion of one single being into God: That is what love is.
— Victor Hugo
The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their young.
— Victor Hugo
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.
— Victor Hugo