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Victor Hugo Quotes about Suffering

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

"Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

'Contemplations' (1856) bk. 5, no. 26 'Les Malheureux'

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Contemplations 'Les Malheureux'