Quote

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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
Doe
Glance
Soul
Glances
Firsts
Heavens
First
Awakening
Something
Dawn
Like
Unknown
Philosophical
Heaven
Radiant

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
Victor Hugo
Image
People do not lack strength they lack will.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
Victor Hugo
Image
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
Victor Hugo
Image
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Victor Hugo
Image
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
Victor Hugo
Image
What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo
Image
This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo
Image
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor Hugo
Image
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
Victor Hugo
Image
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
Victor Hugo
Image
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Victor Hugo
Image
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
Victor Hugo
Image
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
Victor Hugo
Image
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo