List of quotes from Victor Hugo
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."
by Victor Hugo
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
by Victor Hugo
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
by Victor Hugo
"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
by Victor Hugo
"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."
by Victor Hugo
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
by Victor Hugo
"Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels."
by Les Miserables Victor Hugo
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
by Victor Hugo
"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."
by Victor Hugo
"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
by Victor Hugo