Soul Quotes by Victor Hugo

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

— Victor Hugo

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

— Victor Hugo

“The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.”

— Victor Hugo

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

— Victor Hugo

“Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.”

— Victor Hugo

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

— Victor Hugo

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

— Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

— Victor Hugo

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

— Victor Hugo

“It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.”

— Victor Hugo

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end…

— Victor Hugo

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

— Victor Hugo

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

— Victor Hugo

My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.

— Victor Hugo

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

— Victor Hugo

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere…

— Victor Hugo

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever…

— Victor Hugo

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night…

— Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night.…

— Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left…

— Victor Hugo

O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself…

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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny…

— Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers;…

— Victor Hugo

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is…

— Victor Hugo

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and…

— Victor Hugo

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man… Jean Valjean, my brother:…

— Victor Hugo

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must…

— Victor Hugo

Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,…

— Victor Hugo

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From…

— 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

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again…

— Victor Hugo

To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the…

— Victor Hugo

“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

— Victor Hugo

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

— Victor Hugo

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

— Victor Hugo