Victor Hugo Quotes
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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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.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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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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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
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Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l’univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l’homme. La deuxième manifestation n’est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s’appelle la Nature, la deuxième s’appelle l’Art.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.