Victor Hugo Quotes

The dream of the hero is to be great everywhere and small next to his father.

Insurrection is the outburst of fury of truth. Sometimes insurrection is resurrection.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

Music expresses what cannot be said with words but cannot remain silent.

The future is in the hands of the schoolteacher.

Change your mind, keep your principles; change your leaves, keep your roots intact.

Nothing better than sleep to conceive the future. Today's utopia is flesh and bone tomorrow.

To try, to challenge, to persist, to persevere, to be true to oneself, to fight fiercely against destiny, to astonish catastrophe with our lack of fear, sometimes facing unjust power and other times rebelling against drunken victory, to resist, to stand up: that is the example that people need and the electrifying light.

Do you know what my illness is? Utopia. Do you know what yours is? Routine. Utopia is the future that strives to be born. Routine is the past that insists on persisting.

Memory is the invisible presence.

It is a strange pretension of man to expect love to lead somewhere.

The future belongs much more to hearts than to minds. To love, that is the only thing that can occupy and fulfill eternity. The infinite requires the inexhaustible.