Victor Hugo: Quotes about love

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”

“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.”

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”

“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

“Love is the only future God offers.”

“And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.”

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”