Victor Hugo Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

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