Astronomy Quotes by Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

— Victor Hugo

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

— Victor Hugo

A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

— Victor Hugo

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

— Victor Hugo

When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

— Victor Hugo

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for…

— Victor Hugo

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a…

— Victor Hugo

“People mistake the constellations of the cosmic void for the stars made by ducks' feet in the soft mud of the bog.”

— 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

They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and…

— Victor Hugo

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;…

— Victor Hugo

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in…

— Victor Hugo

“The science of mathematics applies to the clouds; the radiance of starlight nourishes the rose; no thinker will dare say that the…

— Victor Hugo

“How do we know that the creation of worlds is not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the…

— Victor Hugo

“Algebra applies to the clouds, the radiance of the star benefits the rose--no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of…

— Victor Hugo