Victor Hugo

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

God knows better than we do what we need.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.