Quote

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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
Makes
Trials
Take
Unknown
Heart
Preparation
Long
Profound
Mind
Hearts
Life
Minds
Destiny
Unintelligible
Wise
Trial

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
Image
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
Victor Hugo
Image
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
Victor Hugo
Image
I should hope so, Laigle replied, for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Victor Hugo
Image
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo
Image
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Victor Hugo
Image
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.
Victor Hugo
Image
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Victor Hugo
Image
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
Victor Hugo
Image
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Victor Hugo
Image
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
Victor Hugo
Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
Image
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
Victor Hugo
Image
God made the water but men made the wine.
Victor Hugo
Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
Victor Hugo
Image
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
Image
Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
Victor Hugo
Image
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo
Image
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
Victor Hugo