Victor Hugo: Quotes about love

Victor Hugo was French poet, novelist, and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“To love beauty is to see light.”

Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables

“Love is a fault; so be it.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“To love is to act”

Victor Hugo

Aimer, c'est agir
Last words of his diary, written two weeks before his death, published in Victor Hugo : Complete Writings (1970), edited by Jean-Jacques Pauvert