Quotes about Time
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
— Victor Hugo
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
— Victor Hugo
Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.
— Victor Hugo
He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day
— Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
— Victor Hugo
Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment
— Victor Hugo
He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
— Victor Hugo
The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.
— Victor Hugo
he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.
— Victor Hugo
Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.
— Victor Hugo
To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.
— Victor Hugo