Quote

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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
Trapped
Writer
Persons
Person
World

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo
Image
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
Image
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor Hugo
Image
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
Victor Hugo
Image
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Victor Hugo
Image
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
Victor Hugo
Image
The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
Victor Hugo
Image
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
Image
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
Image
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
Image
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
Victor Hugo
Image
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Image
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
Victor Hugo
Image
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
Victor Hugo
Image
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
Image
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Victor Hugo
Image
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
Victor Hugo
Image
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
Victor Hugo