Love Thoughts Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
Victor HugoLife is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor HugoI met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor HugoThere is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich NietzscheLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeTo love is to act.
Victor HugoOh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
Victor HugoThe first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor HugoWhat a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor HugoLove is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor HugoWhat is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."
Victor HugoLove is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
Victor HugoBy putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor HugoAs a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor HugoMen like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor HugoReaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor HugoThe little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Victor HugoNo one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor HugoDespotism is a long crime.
Victor HugoTo rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
Victor Hugo