Victor Hugo Quotes
-
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
-
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
-
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
-
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
-
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
-
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
-
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
-
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
-
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
-
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!
-
It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
-
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
-
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
-
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
-
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
-
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
-
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
-
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
-
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
-
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
-
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
-
Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme!
-
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
-
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.