More from Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Wisdom is the health of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Toleration is the best religion.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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More on death
Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.
Odd KenOdd Ken If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.
Spike MilliganSpike Milligan If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
NostradamusNostradamus Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
V.S. NaipaulV.S. Naipaul The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac