Victor Hugo Quotes

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

God was bored by him.

Be like the bird in flight… pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings.

Tomorrow, if all literature was to be destroyed and it was left to me to retain one work only, I should save Job.

For man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes – obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.