Quote

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

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
Humans
Vacuum
Well
Followed
Take
Condition
Heart
Conditions
Place
Certain
Demolition
Wells
Reconstruction
Human
Vacuums

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
Image
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
Victor Hugo
Image
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo
Image
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
Victor Hugo
Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
Victor Hugo
Image
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Image
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo
Image
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
Victor Hugo
Image
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo
Image
God knows better than we do what we need.
Victor Hugo
Image
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
Victor Hugo
Image
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
Victor Hugo
Image
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
Victor Hugo
Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
Victor Hugo
Image
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
Victor Hugo
Image
The true artist can only labor con amore.
Victor Hugo
Image
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
Victor Hugo
Image
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
Victor Hugo
Image
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo