Darkness Quotes by Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.”

— Victor Hugo

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

— Victor Hugo

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

— Victor Hugo

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

— Victor Hugo

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the…

— Victor Hugo

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."…

— Victor Hugo

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who committed the sin, but…

— Victor Hugo

“Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer…

— Victor Hugo

“When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous…

— 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

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

— Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

— Victor Hugo

“The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…

— 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

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed…

— Victor Hugo

“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing instruction for all and it must answer for…

— Victor Hugo

“Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it…

— Victor Hugo

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It…

— Victor Hugo

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom…

— Victor Hugo

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is…

— Victor Hugo

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity…

— Victor Hugo

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved…

— Victor Hugo

“The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is…

— Victor Hugo

“So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated…

— Victor Hugo

“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures…

— Victor Hugo

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour…

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“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It…

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

— 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

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

— Victor Hugo

“There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the…

— Victor Hugo

“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris…

— Victor Hugo

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy…

— Victor Hugo