Quote

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

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
Thing
Shed
Love
Passings
Think
Passing
Thinking
Goes
Upon
Woman
Sheds
Lost
Earnestly
Light
Compelled

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
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
Image
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
Victor Hugo
Image
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Victor Hugo
Image
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
Victor Hugo
Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
Victor Hugo
Image
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
Image
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
Victor Hugo
Image
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
Victor Hugo
Image
The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
Victor Hugo
Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
Victor Hugo
Image
A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
Victor Hugo
Image
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
Victor Hugo
Image
Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
Victor Hugo
Image
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
Victor Hugo
Image
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
Victor Hugo
Image
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Victor Hugo
Image
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.
Victor Hugo
Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
Victor Hugo