Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
Victor-Marie Hugo, 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885, was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
His best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris; known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
