Victor Hugo Quotes

Necessity has its own rules

Necessity has no law.

When the devil drives, needs must.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

I'm still swimming.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.