Victor Hugo Quotes, Art Quotes, Soul Quotes

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!

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Art Quotes , Soul Quotes

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Angel Quotes , Night Quotes

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Quotes , Romantic Quotes

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Character Quotes , Sea Quotes

Liberation is not deliverance.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Freedom Quotes

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Smile Quotes

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Children Quotes

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Hands Quotes , Honor Quotes

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Animal Quotes , Men Quotes

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Country Quotes , Reality Quotes

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Fall Quotes

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Mothers Day Quotes , Mom Quotes

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Light Quotes , Return Quotes

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Flower Quotes , Angel Quotes

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.'

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Bored Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Light Quotes

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Flesh Quotes

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

3 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Darkness Quotes , Sun Quotes