Victor Hugo Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

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