Victor Hugo Quotes
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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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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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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By making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory.