Doe Quotes by Victor Hugo

“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a”

— Victor Hugo

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

— Victor Hugo

He does not weep who does not see.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

— Victor Hugo

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages…

— Victor Hugo

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

— Victor Hugo

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

— Victor Hugo

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

— Victor Hugo

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us…

— Victor Hugo

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime,…

— Victor Hugo

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece…

— Victor Hugo

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,…

— Victor Hugo

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening…

— Victor Hugo

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There…

— Victor Hugo

I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not…

— Victor Hugo

I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue…

— Victor Hugo

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued…

— Victor Hugo

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees,…

— Victor Hugo

Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and…

— Victor Hugo

These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not…

— Victor Hugo

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature…

— Victor Hugo

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and…

— Victor Hugo

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been…

— Victor Hugo

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on…

— Victor Hugo

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of…

— Victor Hugo

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

— Victor Hugo

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

— Victor Hugo

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

— Victor Hugo

But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.

— Victor Hugo

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

— Victor Hugo

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a”

— Victor Hugo

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

— Victor Hugo

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

— 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

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the…

— Victor Hugo