Quote

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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
Chaos
Merely
Surrendered
Plan
Incident
Soon
Disposal
Plans
Incidents
Chance
Reign
Past
Laid
Time
Planning

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
Victor Hugo
Image
To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
Victor Hugo
Image
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
Victor Hugo
Image
by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
Victor Hugo
Image
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Image
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo
Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
Image
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
Victor Hugo
Image
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor Hugo
Image
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo
Image
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo
Image
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Victor Hugo
Image
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Image
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Victor Hugo
Image
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Victor Hugo
Image
Those who do not weep, do not see.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
Victor Hugo
Image
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
Image
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
Victor Hugo
Image
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Victor Hugo