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Victor Hugo Quotes about Death

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Victor Hugo
Death, Wisdom, Live Life
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

Victor Hugo
Death, Wreaths, Germs
Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Victor Hugo
Death, Men, Unknown Things
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.30, My Ebook Publishing House

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Victor Hugo
Death, Feet, Profound

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

Victor Hugo
Death, Morning, Next

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Victor Hugo
Death, Dream, Wisdom

Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

Victor Hugo
Death, Night, Doors

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

Victor Hugo
Death, Dark, Light
Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

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