Victor Hugo Quotes
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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Labor is life; thought is light.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.