Quote

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.

Victor Hugo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
Wisdom
Spirit
Soul
Grander
Spectacle
Interior
Interiors
Sky
Sea

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
Victor Hugo
Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Victor Hugo
Image
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Victor Hugo
Image
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
Victor Hugo
Image
In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
Victor Hugo
Image
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
Victor Hugo
Image
To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
Victor Hugo
Image
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Victor Hugo
Image
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Victor Hugo
Image
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
Victor Hugo
Image
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.
Victor Hugo
Image
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
Victor Hugo
Image
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
Victor Hugo
Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
Victor Hugo
Image
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
Victor Hugo
Image
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Victor Hugo
Image
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
Image
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
Victor Hugo
Image
The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo
Image
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
Victor Hugo