--- title: "7 Flight Quotes By Victor Hugo" description: "7 Flight quotes by Victor Hugo. Plus more from Victor Hugo and more Flight sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/victor-hugo-32_bird_every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of_152029.jpg" --- > [Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of-the-infinite-in-its-claw/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/victor-hugo-32_bird_every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of_152029.jpg) > [Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/be-like-the-bird-that-passing-on-her-flight-awhile-on-boughs-too/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/victor-hugo-32_flight_be-like-the-bird-that-passing-on-her-fli_355550.jpg) > [Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/science-is-continually-correcting-what-it-has-said-fertile/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/victor-hugo-32_accounts_science-is-continually-correcting-what-i_766345.jpg) > [In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/in-the-vast-cosmical-changes-the-universal-life-comes-and-goes-in/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/265/victor-hugo-32_activity_in-the-vast-cosmical-changes-the-univers_1335340.jpg) > [Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/every-bird-that-flies-has-the-thread-of-the-infinite-in-its-claw/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0a/victor-hugo-32_bird_every-bird-that-flies-has-the-thread-of_1482819.jpg) > [Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/nothing-can-be-sadder-or-more-profound-than-to-see-a-thousand-things-2/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/victor-hugo-32_bends-in-the-road_nothing-can-be-sadder-or-more-profound-t_2415968.jpg) > [Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/be-like-the-bird-who-pausing-in-her-flight-awhile-on-boughs-too/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/victor-hugo-32_bird_be-like-the-bird-who-pausing-in-her-flig_3066351.jpg) ## Other authors on Flight ## More by Victor Hugo > [Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/houses-are-like-the-human-beings-that-inhabit-them/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead-festival-it-has-been-happy/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-caught-her-she-fell-he-caught-her-in-his-arms-he-held-her-tightly/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/first-i-loved-women-then-animals-and-now-i-love-stones-they-re-just/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/nature-is-pitiless-she-never-withdraws-her-flowers-her-music-her/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/have-courage-for-the-great-sorrows-of-life-and-patience-for-the-small/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-peasants-of-the-asturias-believe-that-in-every-litter-of-wolves/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/great-blunders-are-often-made-like-large-ropes-of-a-multitude-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/for-love-is-like-a-tree-it-grows-of-itself-it-send-its-roots-deep/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/blacheville-smiles-with-the-self-satisfied-smugness-of-a-man-whose/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/loving-in-ignorance-she-loved-with-all-the-more-passion-she-did-not/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/laughter-is-the-sun-that-drives-winter-from-the-human-face/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/our-joys-have-shadows-the-perfect-smile-belongs-to-god-alone/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-those-we-love-are-in-question-our-prudence-invents-every-sort-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Love is a fault; so be it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-is-a-fault-so-be-it/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flight/victor-hugo/#itemlist", "name": "7 Flight Quotes By Victor Hugo", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Victor Hugo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of-the-infinite-in-its-claw/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/victor-hugo-32_bird_every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of_152029.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/victor-hugo-32_bird_every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of_152029.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a69/victor-hugo-32_bird_every-bird-which-flies-has-the-thread-of_152029.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.” — Victor Hugo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Victor Hugo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/be-like-the-bird-that-passing-on-her-flight-awhile-on-boughs-too/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/victor-hugo-32_flight_be-like-the-bird-that-passing-on-her-fli_355550.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/victor-hugo-32_flight_be-like-the-bird-that-passing-on-her-fli_355550.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/victor-hugo-32_flight_be-like-the-bird-that-passing-on-her-fli_355550.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her…” — Victor Hugo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science is continually correcting what it has said. 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