Victor Hugo Quotes

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

Suffering does not change its face.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Want is misery.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

There is no love without suffering.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

All of my books come from pain.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.