Dreams Quotes by Victor Hugo

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

— Victor Hugo

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

— Victor Hugo

“Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?”

— Victor Hugo

“The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

— Victor Hugo

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

— Victor Hugo

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

— Victor Hugo

“Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.”

— Victor Hugo

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

— Victor Hugo

“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.”

— Victor Hugo

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above…

— Victor Hugo

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

— Victor Hugo

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

— Victor Hugo

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

— Victor Hugo

“Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

“My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.”

— Victor Hugo

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything…

— Victor Hugo

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal…

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“In these aspirations, much more than in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character of a man to be found. Our…

— Victor Hugo

“To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you…

— Victor Hugo

“I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem.…

— Victor Hugo

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve…

— Victor Hugo

“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with…

— Victor Hugo

“Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All…

— Victor Hugo

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

“They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute,…

— Victor Hugo

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible…

— Victor Hugo

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even…

— Victor Hugo

“The aim to which I have aspired for so many years, my nightly dream, the object of my prayers in heaven, Security-…

— Victor Hugo

“Thought must always contain an element of desire, but there is none in dreaming. The dream, which is wholly spontaneous, adopts and…

— Victor Hugo

“If anything is horrible, if there is a reality that surpasses our worst dreams, it is this: to live, to see the…

— Victor Hugo

“If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun,…

— Victor Hugo

“Darkness makes the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day feels his heart chilled. When the eye…

— Victor Hugo

“Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected…

— Victor Hugo

“Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on…

— Victor Hugo

“In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was…

— Victor Hugo

“If anything is terrifying, if there is a reality that surpasses dream, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to…

— Victor Hugo

“In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much…

— Victor Hugo

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

— Victor Hugo

“She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white.”

— Victor Hugo