YSU IJEVAN BRANCH is pleased to represent sayings and quotes by a renowned writer Victor Hugo:
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
- An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
- He sought to transform the grief that looks down into the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.
- People do not lack strength; they lack will.
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.
- Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
- Progress is the stride of God.
- Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
- Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
- It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
- Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
- There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
- The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
- Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
- When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
- A great artist is a great man in a great child.
- Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
- I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
- Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
- There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
- Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.