Quote

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

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
Childish
Grief
Side
Bring
Sides
Men
Peculiarity

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Victor Hugo
Image
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
Image
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
Victor Hugo
Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
Victor Hugo
Image
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
Victor Hugo
Image
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Victor Hugo
Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Victor Hugo
Image
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
Victor Hugo
Image
To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
Victor Hugo
Image
Are you afraid of the good you might do?
Victor Hugo
Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
Image
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
Image
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
Image
Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.
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
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo
Image
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
Victor Hugo