Victor Hugo Quotes
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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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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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.