Quote

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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
Sleep
Existence
World

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
Image
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Victor Hugo
Image
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
Victor Hugo
Image
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
Victor Hugo
Image
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
Victor Hugo
Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
Victor Hugo
Image
God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
Victor Hugo
Image
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
Image
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo
Image
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
Victor Hugo
Image
Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
Victor Hugo
Image
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Image
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
Victor Hugo
Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
Victor Hugo
Image
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Image
Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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
To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
Victor Hugo
Image
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
Victor Hugo