Quotes about Devotion
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
he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.
— Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God
— Victor Hugo
When both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on high; that is the only difference.
— Victor Hugo
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.
— Victor Hugo
When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud, happy, her heart full to overflowing. Jean
— Victor Hugo
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.
— Victor Hugo
Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.
— Victor Hugo
God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.
— Victor Hugo
Loving is half of believing.
— Victor Hugo
I have a strong will to love you for eternity.
— Milan Kundera
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.
— Milan Kundera