More from Victor Hugo
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Reality in strong doses frightens.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on lack
The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality is for people that lack imagination.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Prayer gives time back to God. It makes us step away from the obsession of a life that is always lacking time and rediscover the peace of necessary things.
Pope FrancisPope Francis All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
AesopAesop Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao TzuLao Tzu In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
AeschylusAeschylus Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde