Quote

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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
Life
World
Souls
Wisdom
Care
Soul

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Victor Hugo
Image
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
Victor Hugo
Image
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
Image
To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
Image
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
Victor Hugo
Image
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
Victor Hugo
Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
Victor Hugo
Image
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo
Image
To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo
Image
The miserable's name is Man he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
Victor Hugo
Image
Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
Victor Hugo
Image
My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
Victor Hugo
Image
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Victor Hugo
Image
If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
Victor Hugo
Image
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Hugo
Image
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Victor Hugo