Quotes about Resilience
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
Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
— Victor Hugo
As long as there are misérables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom that can become Marat.
— Victor Hugo
It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.
— 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
Errors make excellent projectiles.
— 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
If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
— Victor Hugo
Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.
— Victor Hugo