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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 39

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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Dream, Sleep, Night

Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.142, 谷月社

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

Sacrifice, Generations, Earth

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

Men, Years, Age

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

Wisdom, Hands, Monsters

"Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel".

‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

Girl, Soul, Unhappy

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.560, BookCaps Study Guides

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Moving, Idols, Dollars

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

Beautiful, Makeup, Men

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12466, Delphi Classics

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

Dames, Stones, Gargoyles

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.

Death, Dark, Light

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.170, Wordsworth Editions

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Stars, Dark, Night

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Land, Water, Darkness

Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.104, 谷月社

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Beautiful, Art, Literature

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

Men, World, Poet

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.

Depth, Substance, Useless

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.798, Modern Library

Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

Cities, Dwelling, Way

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Wisdom, Prayer, Views

Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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