More Quotes by Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
