Victor Hugo Quotes
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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It is often our best friends who throw us down.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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La musique...est la vapeur de l’art. Elle est à la poésie ce que la rêverie est à la pensée, ce que le fluide est au liquide, ce que l’océan des nuées est à l’océan des ondes.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered.